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?

Up here, it's like two bricks being clipped. Chelt-num.

Who is GBS?

Since when has there ever been more than one way of saying thus?

I can't see how the pronunciation is relevant to the question you were asking, about an essay. Why did they even mention the pronunciation?

Especially in English where there are so many different pronunciations ?

Famous EFL (English as a foreign language) example How do you pronounce ' ghoti'

gh as in rough
o as in women (plural)
ti as in attention

That would be fish then .

George Bernard Shaw.

Can you imagine a class of 8 year olds in Ireland having to say

This, that, these and those, that's the way the TH goes.

I imagine our teacher was banging her head off the desk in her head.

And as for trying to buy a train ticket to Uttoexter ...

GBS George Bernard Shaw who had an interest in these things Origin of the ghoti example above.

When I was at uni I knew a guy from Australia whose girlfriend was at a university “up north” called Loogabarooga. I assumed he meant “up north” in Australia. It was a good six months before I realised he meant Loughborough.

Personally I’ve never been able to say r properly - it’s like my teeth just can’t get into the right position. Can’t roll my r’s either which really sucked when I was trying to learn to sing arias. You can’t sing Italian opera if you can’t do it, it sounds weird. You have no idea how many days I spent trying to do it.

I just got it! But golly it’s hard to describe the difference.

Good for you, OP, for using a new word. A lot of people refuse to learn or use new words because of embarrassments like this. Over the years, I have heard quite a lot of mispronunciations on the BBC of not overly unusual words, so don't worry about it.

Irish here and I pronounce TH sounds in words, both soft and hard. As do most of my friends from home. Plenty of Irish accents include use of TH.

Me too. I also say haitch, which is correct in Ireland.

For the Irish who pronounce TH, are you from Dublin by any chance?

Th as the and us with an emphasis on the S sound at the end To rhyme with fuss, cuss, bus etc that's the correct way isn't it?

Molly

Just say it like "this" but with an U instead of an I.

You, Madam, are a GENIUS!

You could have said a long u so it sounds like oo, Yorkshire style.
I used to think misled was like miser. Someone in this house does himalayas with ah in the middle and who could say or spell anemone without help?

Irish people will pronounce think or thought like a T sound. So Tink or Tought.
However, the, there, those, them would be De, Dere, Dose, Dem.

I would say it's only a small subset of Irish people who pronounce their THs like that, Flyinga. For most it's a distinctly different sound, though not quite the way most English people would pronounce it - it's more like the Irish language T sound at the start of Taoiseach.

Check out the Rohmer classic Le Genou de Claire, in which the girl whose English is so good has been accepted into a college in a place she calls Cheltemanemham.

And if you went to either uni in Leicester, Loughborough was the University of Low Brow.

"The" with "us" on the end.

You were right and they are wrong - fuss to rhyme with bus. They're ignorant too. Maybe try to get some clever person to say it in front of them so they can hear that they're in a small minority.

Don't tell me how Irish people pronounce words. If you're a Dub, you probably pronounce it slightly differently, but from the midlands, we do say what I've described above. Exceptions would be very posh families, usually Protestant.

Flyinga - yes I'm from Dublin and pronounce the th sound

It's said like "this" is, but with an 'u' sound.

I brought my dd up in Dublin and she used to say thongue for tongue, as she didn't know where she was supposed to use the "th" sound.

Munster, and pronounce my ‘th’s. My ILs from Cork don’t, but it’s as much a class thing as regional, I’d have said?

Don't tell me how Irish people pronounce words. If you're a Dub, you probably pronounce it slightly differently, but from the midlands, we do say what I've described above. Exceptions would be very posh families, usually Protestant.

What, you're the only Irish person allowed to have an opinion on this?

Yes, I'm from Dublin, and I pronounce my THs. Half my (Catholic) family are from Munster, and they all pronounce them too. In my experience, as Tory said, it's a class marker more than a regional one - "I tink so" would be a typical working class Dublin pronunciation.