To hate that 'wrath' is CONSTANTLY pronounced wrong.

[RocketInMyPocket]

It's roth, not rath fgs!!!
PS regional shmegional

Right treacle I'm with you!
This is how I pronounce greg (and egg etc)

Tis rath oop North & therefore it will always be rath to me :)

Wrath = (Tim) Roth here.

Great thread, but everytime I see your posts on this thread, op, I'm hearing 'rock-ay in my pock-ay' like you're French!

Ah, thank you Rocket I think I've got it. It's like a really short 'e' sound?

Well I'm definitely sophistimicated like the French

It's roth.

Treacle Yeah, really short, and that's how many Americans pronounce Craig, so it rhymes with the Greggs advert.

AN-Uh then. When you day ER you don't pronounce the R do you?

Rhotic speakers (most Scots, Irish, Canadians, Americans) pronounce the "r."
Non-rhotic (best example is English RP) do not. Many mumsnetters are rhotic speakers so using an "r" to lengthen/broaden a vowel (usually "a") can be confusing.

MN is very non-rhotic centric, however.

Gruntfuttock My pronunciation is obviously better than my typing. I silently judge the rath-ers. (I typed roth-ers first there, FFS.)

Definitely 'roth' (UK English pronunciation).

As a poster explained upthread, the American pronunciation of "Craig" is close to the Scottish Gaelic pronunciation. I think it likely that the American pronunciation comes from the high level of Scottish immigration from the Highlands and Islands, especially in the South where the name is particularly popular.

rarth for me, so I am wrong?

I don't think I've never heard roth only ever rath.

Moog rhymes with vogue???? Shattered an illusion there, I thought it was Moog rhymes with naff-all but an oo like in spoon, and that the Moog in Willo the Wisp was named after it!

Back to sloths - I'm sure I heard someone on radio 4 the other week saying that it was sloth like Goth, not sloth like both. I'd been cringing every week at Gogglebox, the advert with the sofa works sloth

I am Scottish,strong accent, Central Belt area (Stirling)? not posh. My English teacher at school (who was also Scottish)?taught us emphatically that wrath was "roth".

And also that "doth" was "duth".

"Craig" rhymes with Hague and Greg rhymes with leg. Lay and egg doesn't remotely rhyme!

It's pronounced "roth" if you're English, "rath" if you're from the US. I used to be a choir girl in church and they were very strict on getting us to pronounce it the correct way. Emblazoned on my memory .

It's "roth"

But nowhere near as annoying as the American pronunciation of "herbs" as "erbs"... Grrrrrr!!

I say erbs families

"H", Rocket, practise your "H"!!

(Blowing out candles is optional)

I would say roth too.

I struggle terribly with describing the plot of South Pacific (not that it comes up that often). I pronounce Lieutenant the normal English way, but when I use it as his 'name' I switch to the American pronunciation. "So, there's this lefftenent and he's on an island etc etc... Anyway, Lootenant Cable falls in love with Liat...".

We pronounce "herb" the way we do because it's a French word. We pronounce garage and filet and valet in the French manner as well because we are so damned sophisticated.

SconeRhymesWithGone, do you pronounce 'Paris' the French way too?

I flatshared with a girl who used to say "Barthelona"

"We went on holiday to Barthelona"

She sounded like bloody Manuel.

Of course it's roth, nobody i know would say rath!