plastic - how to pronounce

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odd question
but do you say it rhyming with Laugh,
ie plarstic

or hat, plastic

DH and I are both scientists; he used to work in high performance plastics. He's a well spoken southerner. He says 'plastic' with a short a , and so does every scientist from around the world I've ever heard utter the word.

Pronouncing plastic as 'plarstic' doesn't sound posh, it sounds scientifically illiterate.

No, Upper class people also say plastic with a short A.

I say plastic (short a, like cat, and fantastic (not fantarrrstic).

I say plaster with an AR sound: plar-sta. But pasta with a short 'a' sound (like cat).

South East, middle class.

I think maybe in a west country accent it could a bit like plaastic with a long A. But generally it's not one of the bath/grass type words that is generally pronounced differently in the north and south.

My dad said "plaasrstic". He's the only person I've ever met who does. He was from Scotland/NE, but Jamaican dad.

IMO it really marks someone out as not posh but rather pretentious when they say plah stick. I know lots of posh folk and have never heard any of them pronounce it like that!

Yes... but that's not a 'posh' ah sort of sound.

I also once heard someone try to posh up the word canal by pronouncing it can-aaaal. Made me laugh!

In the 80s, when pasta was still seen as a little exotic, I remember hyper- correctors saying "larsarnyar" for " lasagne"!

Short a. South east. Fantastic.

This.

I was born in the West Country and now live in the south east. As you'd probably expect, I pronounce words like bath and grass with long vowel sounds.

My mother was born in the south east and I pronounce most words as she did. There are three differences I can think of and "plastic" is one them. She used a long A and I use a short one. The same was true for "pasta".

Weirdly, it was the other way round for "graph". She used a short A and I use a long one.

My father was from the north west and used short As for everything.

I don’t think I’ve heard ‘plarstic’ since the 60s! The very old-fashioned head of my girls’ grammar school (she always wore a gown) once announced in assembly that we couldn’t use rain as an excuse not to wear our summer uniform panama hats - we needed to get one of those little ‘plarstic’ collapsible rain hats to wear over them.

IIRC she said ‘collarpsible’, too.😂