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)

How old are you? I think if you're under 60 then probably fore-head is what you grew up with. How did your parents and grandparents used to pronounce it?

I grew up saying forrid and it was definitely the norm in the 1960s (where I lived anyway) but by the time I was in my 40s I'd switched to fore-head, simply because almost everyone else had too by then, even my mother (in her 70s at the time). My grandmother (born early 1900s) stuck with forrid all her life.

Forrid.
I have never heard a British person say papREEKa, we definitely say PAPrika.

I say per - preek - ker

Me too! Farrid or Farhead. Irish.

Me neither! papREEKa.

Still Irish (as per last post) but mostly live and work in UK these days ...

I had a boss who said forrid , he also said tuff brush instead of toothbrush!

Paprika is pronounced PAP-rikka.

Forbid but fore-lock

Not by everyone

Forrid not Forbid - that's autocorrect

Forrid. My DM always corrected me if I tried to say forehead. She’s of Irish descent so do t know if it’s that .

I say PAPrika.

I say pap-REEKA as does everyone I know

But correctly.

🙋‍♀️

Never PAPrika. Always papREEka.

There's no right or wrong here. Either papREEKa or PAPrika is acceptable in UK English. News to me, but having seen the spread here, I'd have assumed that.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/paprika

Maybe I'll try starting a vogue for paprikAH!

I'm really surprised that forrid is seen as a 'posh' way to say it - mainly because that's the way I say it.

Fore-head, the correct British pronunciation.

Incorrect.

Do we have a regional split in the PaprEEka / PAPrika?

Me: Irish, PaprEEka.

I'm sure PAP-reeka and pap-REEKA are down to regional variations but on MN that's often not allowed, just described as being ignorant or mispronunciation

Another spice people get wrong, along with paprika, is turmeric. I’ve heard people on tv refer to it as ‘choomeric’ 🙉

I say fore head but forrid is correct, just like med-sin is correct and med a sun isn’t. But I still say medicine as med a sun.

Either forehead or farrid in UK English; forehead in American, says Cambridge.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/forehead

More than one correct pronunciation, like Paprika

I can't stand it when chefs say choomeric

Med-i-sin for me