To hate that 'wrath' is CONSTANTLY pronounced wrong.

[RocketInMyPocket]

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

a vowel strongler eh?

says me who used to (mis)pronounce focaccia as foc- ah - chia

Roth? Only if you have a certain English accent maybe.

I'm Northern and say roth.

But I do say foc-a-chia, how's it really pronounced??

wtf? I can't believe the number of people here claiming to say 'roth'. You are all insane.

The etymology is apparently old Germanic so would have been with a short vowel /a/ as in cat etc.

That would probably have been the pronunciation in use when the first English settlers went to the New World which is why US English still uses that pronunciation now. That's what generally explains differences between US/UK English, both in vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.

I say roth and I'm northern.
I always thought that rath was the American pronunciation.

Northern and roth too. Checked with partner, who pronounces loads of things incorrectly differently, but he also says roth.

I say wrath and I fully intend to keep doing so.Bore off.

What?? rath isn't right?

I'm from Norfolk and say barf for bath and glarss for glass so rath is just another thing I say wrong

I can't believe that we even need to have this conversation! The word wrath is always pronounced "roth" in English. I have never heard it pronounced "rath".

In British English the pronunciation is "roth". The end!

Agree, it's roth.

Have we done sloth (pronounced 'slowth' of course) yet?

DS has 2 fried a called Craig, one Creg, the other Cray. .. Also in NI and totally get Anthony and Antony being different names I have lived here so long that I have lost the ability to say power shower, it's now parr sharr

Bloody predictive text, friends and one...

Definitely Slowth.
Pesky deadly sins.

littlejohnnydory it's pronounced "foh catcha" you don't pronounce the i.

It's Tim.

Roth.

WONA I think?
Americans don't say "mirr" to wind you up for heavens sake.
That is how they say mirror.
It is their accent
Honestly...

I take it people say it to you a lot, OP. It's usually me saying it to others under my breath so it's not a problem.

Guilt Think they may be doing it on purpose the bastards

I'm northern too and it's pronounced 'roth' surely? And 'sloth' not 'slowth' - that just sounds wrong. My MIL says 'mirrow' for 'mirror' and I still can't bear it after 13 years. ??

Rocket

What d'ya call a badly-behaved coach driver?

choco I don't know?

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I must admit the Craig one does bother me. How can Craig be cregg?!

So how do you say plaid and plait?

Also all Americans don't say "mirr." I don't. I have a (mostly) Southern American accent and I pronounce both syllables, as do most Southerners.

I do have to chuckle a bit at that quintessentially American book Grapes of Wrath being pronounced Grapes of Roth.