To think its pronounced BATH not BARTH

[FlyRussianUnicorn]

Maybe its a northern thing. But my brother has jusy pronounced a "bath as a "barth"

Who is right?

[G1raffe]

Bath and barth sound the same to me @)

[Buzzardbird]

You are.

[NickNacks]

Of course it's a northern thing

Never heard of regional accents??!

[alibongo5]

Depends where you're from, in the South it's barth in the north it's bath.

[figureofspeech]

I'm with you on this one but that's because I'm a northern lass. I have this same argument with my southern dc over pronounciations.
YANBU

[CantAffordtoLive]

There is no 'r' in bath! So it is bath...

Is grass 'grarss'?
'Ass' as in mule would therefore be 'Arss'! hhmmm really?

[Pigwitch]

Yanbu. It's BATH. I'm originally from the northwest btw. There's no R in BATH.

[Trills]

Southern people are not saying b-ar-th, we're saying b-ah-th.

As in "the doctor says say aah".

[Minisoksmakehardwork]

Dh is northern and says bath. I'm southern and say barth. Both of us are right and both of us mostly me have to stop correcting the dc. It's just dialect.

[StandoutMop]

Dh and I had this same debate with out DC today. We have a bath, the DC have Barth's (walk on parths, play on grarse etc). I have spawned southerners

[BitchyComment]

I'm bilingual, I say bath and barth depending how northern I am feeling.

[CreepingDogFart]

YANBU it's "Bath"

[BestZebbie]

I vote Bahth (because the city of Bath is in the South and said with the Zummerset 'arr') - but then the North gets Cassel instead of Cahstle, because of Newcassel.

[lulucappuccino]

"Maybe it's a Northern thing."
Errrrrrr, of course it is. Are you being deliberately dim, op?

[BitchyComment]

What about haf and harf. (Half)

I say haf

[EastMidsMummy]

Are you 5 years old?

[ShowOfHands]

It's barth.

Non rhotic.

As trills explains.

It's just accent isn't it? At least when we argue over another thing/think coming, there's a right answer.

[FullMoonDiva]

I'm Yorkshire so it's 'baff' for us, although my eldest says barth and says the rest of our city is strange for reasons known only to herself

[HelloCanYouHearMe]

I live in the middle - its:

Bath
Grass
Castle

My nephew says 'carstle' thanks to Peppa bloody pig, but sticks to the bath and grass pronounciations...

It is not barth or grarse

[PerpendicularVincent]

YANBU, there is no 'r' in it, therefore it's bath.

Plarster also drives me mad. It's plaster!

[Notstayingup]

Maybe I am missing something but I would say Baaaaath (with a long A) but am a Londoner (and therefore usually wrong according to mumsnet) DH who is a foreigner (said with an Irish accent) says it the same way as me

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

bath = bah-th.

If you look at the pronunciation given in the OED it states that it's a long a (ah) not a short one.

[bumblefeline]

I say barf I'm from Kent. My children say baff they have Stoke accent.