Pronunciation differences - scone, castle etc

[BearSoFair]

Are there any more that are common?

Talking to a friend in another country last night and got onto words like 'bath' and 'castle' and how she's never sure whether it should be a long or short A. She wasn't aware of the great scon/scone debate! Are there any other words with well known/debated pronunciation variations? I feel like there must be but none are coming to mind!

Often - can be pronounced OFFEN, but also OFTEN in some places they do articulate the T sound. yes really.

Vaze/ Varse -Vase
Brekfast/ brakefast- breakfast

Ooh yes vase! Have also just realised I use both 'often' and 'offen' depending on the kind of sentence

So so many!

MN hashes this out regularly. There’s bound to be at least one thread for each disputed word on it.

(Don’t mention the rhotic and non rhotic accents!)

Vaze is the American pronunciation, rather than UK isn't it? I didn't think there was regional variation on that one?

Either/either
Neither/neither
Envelope

Eaten can sound like eeet...n or e..tn

Mask being called Maask really irritates me

Poor.

In Wales it's pooer. In England it seems to be pore.

The long and short A is to do with accent surely. Neither is right or wrong.

Also tooth.

In Wales it's tuth. In England it's toooth.

@ellieboulou33

Mask being called Maask really irritates me

Anybody in the south of England irritates you because of their accent?

In some parts of Wales ear is pronounced like year

We have funny discussions in our house about these, hes geordie, im southern.
Sure shore/shuer
Pure pyore/puyer
Film film/filum
Bath barth/bath
Grass grarss/grass
Almond al-mond/armond
Latte lartay/lattay
I could go on haha

Oh FYI Op, these threads never end well

In some parts of Wales ear is pronounced like year

And in at least one house in England

I heard ‘sixth‘ pronounced as ‘sikth’ by an English TV presenter recently - is that normal in English accents?

@Anoisagusaris

I heard ‘sixth‘ pronounced as ‘sikth’ by an English TV presenter recently - is that normal in English accents?

How do YOU pronounce sixth?

I can’t think of any other way that Sikth?

One that drives me mad is ahxed for asked

Necklace: Neck-lace vs neck-lus
Tongue: Tong vs tung

Im confused why you friend isnt sure whether its prounounced bath or barth. Surely it depends on where she grew up there is no right or wrong way.

It was on a recent MN thread that I discovered some people don't pronounce the l in words like almond.

i pronounce sixth as sicksth.

Garage is the only one I can think of that I havnt seen mentioned.

User27aw if you speak English as a second language, and hear both it's hard to know which is "correct" - and in these cases, both are valid pronunciations.

Hardly anybody pronounces "sixth" "correctly" because of the consonant cluster. Technically speaking, it should be /siksth/ but it's usual either to lose the /k/ or the /s/ sound (together corresponding to the letter "X")
Make it plural and you've got real mouth gymnastics going on!

Scottish "Wh" is pronounced differently from "w" - for example Where and wear are not the same sound. The "wh" is aspirated (?) so with a little puff/blow of air. I only realised this recently when (not "wen" ) someone took the piss...
I don't know if this is only Scotland though.

aksed/axed is the older pronunciation of asked - it's in Chaucer even

It has been retained in some dialects and it also flips around and returns from time to time