To hate that 'wrath' is CONSTANTLY pronounced wrong.

[RocketInMyPocket]

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

..... a bustard!

I say plat and never say plaid. (Is that the same as tartan? Remember reading about 'plaid shirts' in teenage Sweet Valley High type crap I think).
And wonders how low a person would have to be to disagree with the Attenborough...

Choco Spits out coffee on keyboard!!
Groans

Ah, for a moment I thought you were telling me sloth is pronounced Slough-th. Mis-read the slowth phonetic spelling. English is a bit stupid (as I am constantly telling my 5 year olds who are trying to come to terms with it at the moment).

Agree rattling
Lost count of how many times I've told my 5 year old one is spelt o n e 'because it just is'

Useful if like me you're too prissy to properly swear - cut up by a bus driver? Shake your fist and shout 'Ya Bustard'.

Plaid usually is a synonym for tartan in the US, but it also means the piece of tartan cloth worn over the shoulder by men as part of highland dress or the belted plaid (Great Kilt).

sloth - cloth froth doth goth moth

slowth or sloath - growth

ignores the problem of both

Takes on the mighty Mr A.

I'm assuming it's pronounced plad, rather than played (As you put it with plait?)

Choco Reminds me of the bus wankers from The Inbetweeners!

Definitely pronounced roth. Rath is incorrect.

Thanks for that Feminine I genuinely had no idea and thought everyone was doing it on purpose to annoy me

No it's definitely ROTH! Rath is incorrect!! Who are you people?!!

So, how does everyone pronounce "was"? Please don't tell me that you all think it's "wazz"!!

the bus wankers from The Inbetweeners - haven't seen that one - but I do love the Inbetweeners. Probs best to not watch it with the (teenage) DC mind.

It's always pronounced plad in the US. I think in Scotland its pronounced plad by some and played by others.

I was just trying to point out that there are other words like Craig (in the US) that aren't always pronounced as they are spelled. Plait is a good example (also pronounced plat in the US).

It's obviously wass 80s duh!

Sloth is pronounced "sloath" in British English and "slahth" in American English.

I love the arrogance of stating that the way one native speaker of English pronounces a word is right, whereas another native speaker is wrong. And of course, the way that a (usually Southern) English person speaks is Always Right. Amuses the hell out of me.

Very little in English is "pronounced as it is spelled." English is probably one of the least phonetic languages in the world.

Bernard is pronounced differently I know as well. And names like Sasha and Natasha. Sash-uh vs Saah-shuh.
I know what people mean with the Craig-Cregg thing.
It doesn't annoy me by any means, but it just sounds off

Sloth is pronounced "sloath" in British English and "slahth" in American English.

For many Americans, it's more like "slawth."

Iron always gets me. I thought someone was joking the first time I heard I-Ron, but nope, that's really how 'Mericans say it.

They also say tow-Wel and ow-Wel.

Apparently I now have a dot-errrr instead of a Daught-a (or do-a if I glocklestop).

I luffs accents and pronunciation, and am far too easily distracted by them when I should be teaching Shakespeare or composition.

Sorry, kickass, not all Americans in your examples.

I don't know anyone who says "i-ron." And Southerners say "dau" not "dot" in daughter.

Also towel and owl are pronounced differently in different regions. I don't say tow-Wel or ow-Wel.

The vast array of regional dialects in the U.S. means it is impossible to say that there is one American accent. So it's generally inaccurate when people say, "Americans pronounce this word in that way." I have never heard a single American say "I-ron," for example.

Someone upthread mentioned Tara.

I got into a yah-yah on one of these threads a while back about how Americans pronounce Tara. Some Americans (Midwesterners for the most part) say something that sounds like "terra," but many other Americans, especially Southerners, say the "a" sound as in sat.

Exactly, FromSea. A linguist friend once told me that there are seven discrete regional dialects in my native state of Georgia alone.