To think its pronounced BATH not BARTH

[FlyRussianUnicorn]

Maybe its a northern thing. But my brother has jusy pronounced a "bath as a "barth"

Who is right?

Bath and barth sound the same to me @)

You are.

Of course it's a northern thing

Never heard of regional accents??!

Depends where you're from, in the South it's barth in the north it's bath.

I'm with you on this one but that's because I'm a northern lass. I have this same argument with my southern dc over pronounciations.
YANBU

There is no 'r' in bath! So it is bath...

Is grass 'grarss'?
'Ass' as in mule would therefore be 'Arss'! hhmmm really?

Yanbu. It's BATH. I'm originally from the northwest btw. There's no R in BATH.

Southern people are not saying b-ar-th, we're saying b-ah-th.

As in "the doctor says say aah".

Dh is northern and says bath. I'm southern and say barth. Both of us are right and both of us mostly me have to stop correcting the dc. It's just dialect.

Dh and I had this same debate with out DC today. We have a bath, the DC have Barth's (walk on parths, play on grarse etc). I have spawned southerners

I'm bilingual, I say bath and barth depending how northern I am feeling.

YANBU it's "Bath"

I vote Bahth (because the city of Bath is in the South and said with the Zummerset 'arr') - but then the North gets Cassel instead of Cahstle, because of Newcassel.

"Maybe it's a Northern thing."
Errrrrrr, of course it is. Are you being deliberately dim, op?

What about haf and harf. (Half)

I say haf

Are you 5 years old?

It's barth.

Non rhotic.

As trills explains.

It's just accent isn't it? At least when we argue over another thing/think coming, there's a right answer.

I'm Yorkshire so it's 'baff' for us, although my eldest says barth and says the rest of our city is strange for reasons known only to herself

I live in the middle - its:

Bath
Grass
Castle

My nephew says 'carstle' thanks to Peppa bloody pig, but sticks to the bath and grass pronounciations...

It is not barth or grarse

YANBU, there is no 'r' in it, therefore it's bath.

Plarster also drives me mad. It's plaster!

Maybe I am missing something but I would say Baaaaath (with a long A) but am a Londoner (and therefore usually wrong according to mumsnet) DH who is a foreigner (said with an Irish accent) says it the same way as me

bath = bah-th.

If you look at the pronunciation given in the OED it states that it's a long a (ah) not a short one.

I say barf I'm from Kent. My children say baff they have Stoke accent.