How do you pronounce "Chamber"?

[cakeorwine]

Just watched a video and the man is pronouncing "Chamber" like Cham / ber

I pronounce it like Chay / mber

Am I doing it wrong?

Like you, I pronounce it chay not cham.

Could be a regional variation?

Is the video voiced by AI? I've been fooled by quite a few videos that I've got half way through and then it's hit a tricky word or phrase and its AI credentials have become obvious. The one that read 1940 as 'one nine forty' was a giveaway.

I pronounce it 'chaym-ber' as, I suspect, does anyone not AI generated.

Genuine - the person is Welsh if that makes a difference

Chaym/ber

I'll take that

In that case, were they speaking English as a second language? Although all the Welsh speakers I know are fluent in English and wouldn't do this - was it just his accent?

No idea

Well, I have never heard it pronounced anywhere as anything other than 'chaymber' but I am prepared to admit that others might pronounce it differently, although I really have never heard this.

I don't think I pronounce Year correctly

I sat "Yerrr"

Like "err" with a Y in front of it

I'm always puzzled by the way many British people pronounce "yoghurt". I mostly hear yog-hert when, given other "yo" pronuciations, such as Yo-gi Bear, yo-ga, yo-ke, yo-lk, and yo-yo it should surely be yo-gurt not yog-hert? But it is one of many anomalies in English.

But, to answer your question, I also say chaym-ber.

You’re not incorrect, that’s a variation I’ve heard lots of times, more so from older generations. But I would imagine most English people pronounce it the same way as me- rhyming with ‘ear’ or ‘beer’. I think my friend from South Wales pronounces it the same way as you.

That's a very valleys Welsh way of saying it. Do you pronounce "ear" the same way?

Chamber should be pronounced chay mber.

Chaym-ber.
Never heard any other pronunciation

I'd pronounce year with 2 syllables yee-arr

That is the perfect chance for gooseberry and cinnamon yoghurt

e / ah?

I pronounce Year and ear differently

They don't rhyme when I say them

Beer and year don't rhyme

Tear
Fear
Beer
Clear
Near

But not Year

I was a Primary School teacher - God knows how I taught this in phonics

Yes that's how ear is pronounced.

I just wondered as in the South Wales valleys and other areas of south wales with a very strong accent the words year, ear and here( if the h is dropped) are all pronounced in the same way, "yur".

@cakeorwine - thank you for sharing gooseberry and cinnamon yoghurt - it was brilliant, and I've laughed so much. Thank you x

This reminds me of an audiobook I listened to where the narrator was American but the story was set in England, so for the character voices she used an English accent. She had grasped that where an American would say "ass" an English person would say "arse", but mapped this across to every single word where "ass" appeared as a syllable, so you had "marse-ive explosions echoing down the parse-age". I couldn't carry on with it after a while!

Your pronunciation is the standard one.

I’m in SE and say it like you do.

Chamber I would say -chame-ber. Chame rhymes with shame.

Ear has a very specific pronunciation in South Wales though.

I've been listening to loads of audio books this year and in every one there will be the odd word that I think is mispronounced. I just figure everyone has some blind spots.

Person is Welsh, I blame their pronunciation on them Norman invaders and their imported "chambres" from Normandy. 😊

That's not unusual.