Blackbirds & Crows

Here's what it looks like in Hebrew:

The has a 't' sound. It simply *cannot* be pronounced any other way.

You can listen to how each letter sounds here.

Thinking about the 't' and 's' confusion now, that might have something to do with the Ashkenazi Jews (of which I believe there are a fair amount in the U.S.), who tend to pronounce the at the end of a word with an 's' sound instead of a 't'--but that is phonetically incorrect. And since we are talking about "pure" Hebrew here, it should definitely be 't' instead of 's'.