How do you pronounce "Chamber"?

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

I pronounce it like Chay / mber

Am I doing it wrong?

I always do that on these kind of threads

It seems like it was when I was a teacher

I do year with two syllables too. Yeee-errrr.

This is all fascinating and goes way beyond the 'chamber' controversy.

Hee-err, tee-err, fee-err, they all rhyme. But apparently I say 'theatre' weirdly.

Cham to start with 'ch' like 'chair' or 'chimney'
So, Chamber Pot would be
Ch aim ber Pot.

Chaym- burr

( I have a bristolian accent)

In Welsh, ‘the chamber’ is ‘y siambr’. That’s what he’s saying. It’s not an accent thing, He’s pronouncing the Welsh version of the word.

Was just about to say this. The welsh word is kind of sham ber.
Im welsh and I pronounce it chaym ber.
But I think in English. If someone thinks in welsh they are much more likely to pronounce a word the welsh way if it's a very similar word.

Chaymber.
Year to rhyme with ear.
Yoghurt as in yoggurt not yoga.

Yoga is a non-British word adopted with the pronunciation kept (in the same way as “cafe”).

Yogi is a name, so the pronunciation is kept.

Yoke is a split digraph, where the e at the end changes the sound of the o.

Yolk has a digraph in the middle - the ol works together to make the long o sound, the same as old.

Yo-yo follows the o sound of go and ho (as in Santa)

Yog / ert

As in bert

Or is it?
I'm doubting myself

Super interesting - thank you. But it still doesn't explain yog-hert!

They do where I'm from! I have heard the yerr pronunciation of year, but I honestly think that almost everyone I know would say that beer and year rhyme.

I think I am definitely the odd one out

It does, if PP is saying that ‘yo’ is generally pronounced with a short ‘o’ in English (she has outlined why those examples are different). ‘Yob’ and ‘Yonder’ have a short ‘o’ in English, so ‘yoghurt’ is following that same rule.

Heh :) it's all just different regional accents, isn't it. I remember when my kids were in primary and phonics were introduced. All the parents came in to listen to a recording of what they would be teaching the kids. It included someone saying each letter of the alphabet in turn and how it was said in particular words. When it came to the letter "u" we all looked around at each other in confusion as absolutely no-one in that room had ever pronounced that letter the way phonics lady did, and neither did we pronounce the words her way either! I recognised it as the way a very well brought up relative from Surrey spoke, but it was a far cry from our north/Midlands accents!

I had an American child in my class

"z" Zee

Okay - it makes sense in the yob and yonder context - thank you!