To hate that 'wrath' is CONSTANTLY pronounced wrong.

[RocketInMyPocket]

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

I say Roth, I think! Lol

Speaking of Shakespeare, listen to this.

How do you say knight? That is one word which has changed over time, language is always changing that is the nature of it.

I've lived all over the UK and I don't think I've ever heard anyone say wroth! not sure I can change how I pronounce it now!

Scone Seven to me sounds like absolutely nothing in an area that big!?!
Don't know if it's true, but I remember reading once that the British Isles has more regional dialects than the rest of the English speaking world put together.
(Don't know if it meant the geographic British Isles, or political, so don't know whether Ireland was included)

Scones, the iron thing is def a mid west pronunciation but very noticeable and applied to all words with r in. Words ending ER have a definite errrr sound, almost like a Scottish ending, but I say them almost like an a at the end of the word.

chocoluvva you rhymed "cloth, doth and froth" upthread. But "doth" is pronounced "duth", like"duck"...

Its regional as in is it Bahth or bath, Grahss or grass!
I would say wroth but I know most people would say wrath

Eh? A? Ai? Ay?

choco you forgot a_e?

Methinks you are not wright.

Ah.

Actually, on that note, does anyone else remember that 'Magic, Magic Eeee' video they used to wheel out in primary school?

No, but I've heard it was weeled out in some areas. Perhaps in Whales.

omg this is becoming compulsive

Roth?? Must have missed that memo

Always been rath (ar sound in the middle). Not that it's a word I use regularly.

I'd like to know how Ralph become Rafe, or are they different names?

It's wrath btw
You wouldn't say wrothfully would you?

YES to Ralph! What's all that about?

kickass Yes, the Midwestern accent(s) is probably the most notably rhotic of all US accents. But it is also possible that you are hearing more "r" (if you are a non-rhotic speaker, which I assume from what you said about "a" at the end of words ending in "r") than an American rhotic speaker would hear.

I love these threads, by the way.

Yep, scrambled, I'd certainly pronounce 'wrathfully' as 'wrothfully', if I ever had cause to use it in conversation!

I agree with agent p that lots of Scots will have heard the word used in spoken form frequently because of the very famous wrath of Tam o'Shanter's wife, which had to be nursed to keep it warm. You can take it from us, if you've rarely heard it used aloud, it's 'Roth' .

I'm in the Midwest. I pronounce Tara as "Terra." I've never heard anyone say "mirr" for mirror or "i-ron" for iron.

Scone, the kids at school all laugh at how I don't say r, then deliberately exaggerate their rrrs just for funsies. My lessons are a laugh a minute.

I would say Wrath (rath). Not roth.

That's because I'm not English and only the south of england would say roth. all other english speakers (who outnumber the south of england) would say it without that intrusive ah, so it'd be putting on an accent for just one word if I said roth. so why would I.

I'm Scottish but I've always heard other Scottish people pronouncing it as rath.

scone I find it really interesting that if you have a non-rhotic accent, you can sometimes sound as if you are over pronouncing r's, because non-rhotic speakers usually employ an 'intrusive r' (I definitely do, and it wasn't until it was pointed out to me I even realised)