How do you pronounce forehead?

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Fore-head or forrid?

I’ve always said fore-head but I’m currently listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks and Stephen Fry says forrid and it’s really annoying.

Which is correct? Or is it one of those regional things? (I’m in Lincolnshire)

Definitely not posh by the way!

For head (scottish)

I've always said forrid. My children really mock me for it! 😆
My excuse is that we are from different areas of the north West!

forr’d
Londoner.

My mum says "Forr-ehd". She's from Kent but quite snobby so it's probably here trying to be posh rather than regional.

I may have followed her lead when I was little but I definitely say Fore-Head now. I don't think it sounds posh at all to drop an H!

I did used to work with someone (quite well spoken but not posh) who would say Fore-wuhd" for Foreword. It almost sounded like she was saying Forward. I've always said Fore-Word as it is written but I felt self conscious saying it in front of her as she was my boss. Anyone know which is supposed to be correct?

Forr-ed from SE Wales

You could make up your own poem about a little girl from Barrhead, and confuse millions over how to get the words to rhyme.

"Forrid" like horrid, as in:

"There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad, she was horrid!"

Forrid.

It was explained to me as a child that we used to pronounce it as “forrid” until the majority of the population learned to read, when it shifted to being pronounced as it is written. The other example I remember is “weskit”, which is now pronounced by many of us as “waistcoat”.

I think forrid is British English and fore-head is American.

I've noticed that the American pronunciation of schedule, ie "skedule" is also becoming the norm over here now. The British "shedule" is dying out.

Before too long, we'll all be saying Birming-ham instead of Birming'm!

I say far-head

fore head. As a child I never thought the rhyme worked

I pronounce it the correct way. Forrid.

I'm not American and we've always said fore head

Well.

I read your post and in my head said fore-head / 4head

Then I thought of the rhyme and said forred.

So I said it out loud in a sentence and realised I say forred, much to my surprise!

(I also say forwud for foreword, and didn't realise that either!)

Most Scottisb people would say Birmingham anyway - everyone I know does 😃

Scouser- fod

Forrid. I think forrid is the British pronounciation and forehead is the US version.

Lots of people use American pronunciations for lots of words and social media is fuelling it. I've noticed with my DCs that they often use US pronunciations- for example they both say papREEka instead of PAPrika

Forred, not forrid.

I say pap-REEKA. Didn't realise it was American

Forrid. Native English speaker but not British.

Mind you.I say 'fore-lock ' not forrilock' which would sound just off, but possibly the same linguistic principle as 'forrid'.

English is a fascinating language.

I’ve never heard anyone say PAPrika!

That’s what my DCs said to me when I said ‘forrid’!