Th-stopping is the realization of the dental fricatives as stops, which occurs in several dialects of English. In some accents, such as Hiberno-English, some varieties of Newfoundland English, some varieties of New York-New Jersey English, and Indian English, they are realized as the dental stops and as such don't merge with the alveolar stops . Thus pairs like tin/thin and den/then are not homophonous.(Wells 1982: 565–66, 635) In other accents, such as Caribbean English, Nigerian English,… (More on Th-stopping)