How Do You Pronounce 6th?

[OpalGoose]

Just that question. I hear it pronounced "sicth" by the majority of tv presenters but I always say "sicsth".

Doesn't that come out as a two syllable "six-thuh" though?

I say
sick th
fif th
lie brerry
wenzday
and scone to rhyme with gone

Same way as you!

I say sixf.
(Or "fiff") !

Six-th

This is giving me Cumberbatch's penguins.

Uggggh!
Sang-wich sounds horrendous 🙈🙈🙈

Libree?
Do you mean? Lie-brair-ree?

I probably pronounce it Sickf. I think the news presenters must just be doing some old school RP kind of vibes.

I don’t know! I’ve been trying to figure out which way I say it and they both sound right!

It's one of these things that now I've heard it I will always hear it and it will make me cringe 😬

I definitely heard sang-wich on the BBC yesterday. 😱

I think if I am quickly pointing out something to someone... "The 6th one along" it comes out more like "sick th"
But it I were doing the Christmas reading "In the 6th month, the Angel Gabriel....." then I would annunciate more clearly and make sure I said "sick s th"

I'll add secetree (secretary) into the mix...

Oooh this is my top pet peeve.
Cant bear hearing it pronounced as sikth. Its just plain wrong!
It is six th.
I have been known to shout at the TV.

Six-th
Wenzday
Sand-widge

I used to have a teacher who said “Weddens-day”. Most odd.

I can't really manage the "th" sound at the end, so I probably end up saying it more like "fift" and "sixt" (my DOB too). I have had to work done on my front teeth after injury. Tbh I don't really care. People can work out what I mean. 🤷‍♀️

Sicsth, because it's six with th tagged on.

When I'm in charge I shall employ someone to poke presenters with a sharp stick every time they say sikth. The sticks in BBC studios will also give a non lethal electric shock, because they really should know better.

No, 'libree', with a little hint of a r + schwa in the middle - so perhaps more accurately something like 'lib-(ruh)-ree'.

Edit: of course, 'li' pronounced as 'lie'.

Time to reclaim our Norse heritage, and rename it "Wodinsday", I say.

No, because the 'th' has no vowel sound after it. The way you've written it (six-thuh) would sound odd, I agree, because you've added a vowel sound. Th' and 'thuh' do not sound the same.

li-bree here - two syllables
Febyery
wensdy
samwidge

but I definitely do the double sibillants in 5th and 6th

Sixth not sikth.

It's not a k in there it's an x. I hate when people say it as a k.