To think its pronounced BATH not BARTH

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

Who is right?

Everyone writing "it's bath" - you realise you are giving NO information about how you pronounce it, right?

I say it "bath" too.

Everyone here thinks that they say it "bath", because that's how they think "bath" is said.

My MIL pronounces the A as an O, like 'both' drives me up the wall!

Google bath- trap split. It's really interesting.

I am thinking about it too much and now I dont know how I say it.

But regular people from Bath say Baff, in comers say Baahth.

It's Barth - FIL and my mother are both born and bred from there and whenever DH and I go up to visit out families they all pronounce it Barth.

*our

Just dialect.

I'm a southerner and used to get people trying to correct my pronunciation all the time. It's grass, there's no r in it. It's bath, there's no r in it.

I lived in West Yorkshire four years and ended up with a mental list of words that aren't pronounced exactly as they are spelt to trot out as necessary - not least of which was the nearby place 'Slaithwaite' which the very same people giving me grief pronounced as 'Slawit' without a trace of irony.

Now Huddersfield born DH lives on the south coast and has to put up with it all the other way round

Ahh Mr Todd - I am from near Bath and now living in W Yorkshire. Slaithwaite is a trap for southerners.

Although I do revel in saying Penis-tone. But that is because I am puerile :D

Mind you we do have Keynsham (pronounced Keynsham) in NE Somerset

As a northerner, who says bath, I ask all you R sayers.. how do you pronounce the name Kath :) ??

How do you say "father", OP?

I'm from Bath originally. My accent defaults to saying I'm from 'Baaff' when asked

I say 'bath' and 'castle' while the children I teach say 'barth' and 'carstle'. They find them MUCH easier to spell when I pronounce them as it fits in with the way phonics are taught.

Barth sounds ridiculous in my accent. And even more ridiculous is that in the accents that say it is pronounced barth, dont pronounce an R when saying it

Funniest one is when southerners add an extra r to Lancaster so they say Lancarster . Also I take issue with Julia Donaldson that scarf does NOT rhyme with giraffe.

Are the actually adding an r or are they just elongating the a sound? So its lancaahster (or lancawster if thats more accurate)

People from different places all pronounce things differently. Definitely no right or wrong way to pronounce anything. Thought this was common knowledge!

Scarf totally rhymes with giraffe!

Ha ha MrsJamin was just thinking of the Southern pronunciation of Lancaster, always sounds awkward and forced, esp Lancarster Carstle

I use both words don't know why. when I'm impatiently nagging kids i'll say bath. when I'm calm and collected barth .

lol@baff my youngest brother speaks like that with almost every word he's born in the midlands though, and there's no twang to his accent where he gets it I don't know. the rest of us (6 more don't speak like him) . mind you he says "fink" instead of think. "fort" rather than "thought". "i fink he finks it's cool innit?"

I am guilty of using that word innit despite saying barth ROFL its a bad habit.

I prefer "barth" sounds more posh

Scarf also rhymes with bath and laugh

maybe Julia Donaldson pronounces scarf as "scaff"? hence rhymes with "giraffe"? I;ve never heard scarf pronounced that way just guessing......

nancy lool what region do they say scaff for scarf?

Not it's girarffe to rhyme with scarf

Bath
Laff
Giraffe
Scaff?

Near N York moors. Chop gate. Pronounced chop yat.