Bloody embarrassed... how do you all pronounce 'thus' ?

[JellyTots2009]

I'm totally embarrassed just because this happened in front of my partners dad.

I am currently writing up a college assignment and used the word 'thus' in a sentence. Now, not using this word a lot I asked my partner who was standing with his dad if this sentence made sense.
When I pronounced thus all I got was 'it's thus! Thus!' from both of them. Obviously writing it down you don't know how it's said.

I pronounce it 'th-us' like 'fuss' but using 'th' they said it is 'the-us' obviously said as one word and not with a hyphen in.

I know I'm 100% wrong but has anyone else pronounced it my way making my embarrassment less?

Op wasn't saying it in separate syllables, she was just writing it like that to illustrate the different sounds at the beginning of the words.

I'm laying on my bed saying loads of TH words out loud and trying to hear the difference between hard and soft THs. I can't

Aaaaah I get you now

Yes it’s more like the.

Like someone said earlier it’s a sharp TH as in the instead of a soft th like in tooth

Whether you're right or wrong, it's a written essay so it doesn't matter and they were being condescending dicks. Like they're intimidated and worried you'll know about something they don't. Knobbers.

You were wrong in your pronunciation, but they were rude.

We’re you saying ‘thuss’ pronouncing the ‘th’ as you would in ‘through’ and ‘thing’?

STBXH still takes the piss out of me for mispronouncing 'saSHImi' as 'SASHimi' about 8 years ago and that's bloody Japanese!

You are pronouncing it incorrectly OP. Thus rhymes with fuss, but it does not sound the same.

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/thus

Yeah it's TH as in THe. They're dicks for telling you like that though.

Can't quite follow from your explanation but yes, it's 'th' as in at the start of the, that and they, not as at the start of thorough or thought.

It's exactly the sort of word that you see written more than you hear though. I've always said to my kids that any mispronunciation just means you've learned the word from your reading, and that is something to be proud of.

I agree it's a sharp th but wouldn't a strong Northern accent make it sound more like the th in tooth? An in law consistently 'corrects' my short a sounds in castle, grass and bath but my accent isn't wrong.

Although I say thus with the short sharp th.

Are you from East Anglia way, OP ? Lots of people round here say it the way you do, including my DS.

I'm having high school English lesson flashbacks to my teacher talking about which part of your tongue should touch your teeth for which th-shound... I still suck at them, though. My first language doesn't have th-shounds at all and that's my excuse...

I've got a strong northern accent and definitely pronounce it with a TH as in THE.

I've said thus out load too many times now. It no longer makes sense.

Totally agree it rhymes with fuss. But were they talking about the /th/ sound? Either as in "the" (correct) or as in "thin" (incorrect). Completely rude in any case.

How I say thus

Me too Ihate. I think I'm having trouble 'hearing' what a soft th in thus would sound like.

They shouldn't have corrected it either way but I'm curious now.

Ah, if they mean it's a hard "th" as in "they" rather than a soft one as in "thin", they're right. But really, despite being a died-in-the-wool pedant, I wouldn't think this worth making a big deal of. In the middle of a sentence the difference would be barely noticeable.

An in law consistently 'corrects' my short a sounds in castle, grass and bath but my accent isn't wrong.

that's awful. (Possibly a bit of a hypocrite here because I do correct my children's "haitches", but I would never correct anyone else.)

/ðʌs/

You're right OP.

Or even a dyed in the wool pedant. Sorry , couldn't resist !

Piggy

I spent years saying the word epitome wrong. It is not a word I had ever heard spoken aloud growing up and had only ever read it. So when at university I had the chance to use it I smugly said something along the lines of "And that is the epiTOME of rudeness" . Got a pasting... But I styled it out and forever have used epiTOME when talking to that group of pals.

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/thus

Click the little red speaker symbols for sound files of pronunciations.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/thus

Symbol is blue on this one.

Make them buy you a drink to apologise!