Spencer has been having fun with the voiced and non-voiced cognate pairs of phonemes in English (for example, /p/ and /b/; /k/ and /g/; /f/ and /v/; /t/ and /d/;/s/ and /z/).
What particularly intrigued him was how we are able to distinguish between these pairs when whispering . . . since when whispering we are by definition using only air and not a "voice." He concluded that we solve the problem by whispering a "voiced" cognate with a little more force or accent than a "non-voiced" one. However, the whispered sounds are extremely close!
Being a typical teenaged big brother, he then put his experimentation to good use by writing down the following phrases and asking Maritza (his little sister) to whisper them. She was quite impressed! :) To see why, try whispering these with a Middle Eastern accent (not sure why that was necessary, but it seemed to be part of the fun!)
Ay-ahm-feree-tum
Aymah-rehdart
Ay-kod-noh-prainz
Ay-ahm-zdubit
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