AIBU to think my son's name isn't that hard to pronounce?

[SailorByTheSea]

Or is this an acceptable pronunciation!?

We live in London, so 'fear' is 1 syllable (this is relevant!)

My son is called Theodore... You know, 3 syllables, 'The-uh-door'?

All he gets is 'fear-door' please tell me that this isn't an acceptable pronunciation? It makes me regret his name massively

Imustbemad - th can be hard or soft (voiced or unvoiced) a bit like the difference between sss and zzz. However, the th in thirsty is still made by putting your tongue to your teeth, just like in the or then, and not with your teeth on your lips as in f.

I don't think its laziness, just a combination of not hearing it modelled and not being corrected as children.

I say f instead of th most of the time. I can say th, if I wanted to, but I just don't care that much.
I work in the city, and a lot of my colleagues from all over London, Essex and Kent do it too. It's spreading.

If I try and do it I feel like I'm spitting and sound like I have a lisp

Or v instead of th. Depending on where in the word it is.
Nuffink worse than the fucking accent police.

Yep I just hear firsty and fing

Actually, you've flagged up another one 3EyedRaven: changing the final g in a word into a k sound. Why do some many people do this nowadays?

The don't change the g at the beginning of a word e.g. great to krate so why change the g into a k sound at the end?

Can someone explain that?

dolce that's a completely different sound though! And in my experience, those words are said with a kind of 'd' sound, so like dem, dat, although not an actual d sound.
A kind of hybrid sound.
Also, fuck off calling accents 'lazy'.
It's called 'th-fronting' it's one of the main components of a cockney accent.
Standardised spelling is a relatively new concept. Much, much newer than regional accents (which hark back to the days when we all spoke different languages).
You'd know that if you stopped being so 'utterly lazy' and did a bit of googling

Rather a lot of typos in that but I'm sure you get the gist.

Because there's different stresses in the beginning of words than at the end pigs
Same reason I'll say the 't' in 'talk' but not in 'late'.
Anyway, I've heard all you middle class types and your glottal stops. Don't think you've got those past me, .
All your 'olidees you go on from 'Ga'wick'.
All your 'oh, absolu'elys'. Yeah I've heard ya's.
Thucking hypocrites

But it's a k? You wouldn't write it as a k so why say it?

at thucking

pigs to be honest, I don't know.
In my experience it's also more of a nah-ink/nuh-ink (said very fast to sound almost like one syllable) than nuffink, but I wouldn't have been able to type my f's then!

@Imustbemad00

Interesting!

To me
Thin
Thrill
Thunder
Thursday
Three
Throat
Thank
Through
Throw

All start with the same sound as

That
They
Them
Then
Their
Though

I can imagine all the first set being said with a f- sound in estuary English

But I can't imagine the second lot without a th- sound

For you would any of the latter set start with a f- sound? Or are they all a different sound to the first set?

Genuinely fascinated

You'd know that if you stopped being so 'utterly lazy' and did a bit of googling

It's OK, thanks. I'll take being able to speak properly over googling for archaic rubbish.

Are these people who claim not to be able to pronounce this syllable saying "fe, fey, fey're, fen, fat", instead of "the, they, they're, then, that"? Of course they're not! It's utter laziness. simple soloution - don't come to S London, don't talk to us lazy thickos - I'm sure we will survive just fine without you

And I'll carry on communicating just as effectively without caring about your sneery irrelevant opinion.

Goood luck with that.

banana In my neck of the woods, the second set of words are said with a sound that's a kind of hybrid between a 'th' and a 'd'. Definitely not a pure 'd' sound, it's quite hard to explain.

simple soloution - don't come to S London, don't talk to us lazy thickos - I'm sure we will survive just fine without you

You're assuming I'm not familiar with South London? That's a big leap, considering you have no idea where I live. Plenty of people in South London can speak properly, nancy. It's laziness, end of.

Second set a completely different sound to the first set to me. The first set to me are a 'f' sound. I can't really explain what the second set sound like but noting like 'f' or 'th' as I imagine it. I'm trying to think of a sound I can compare it to but I can't.

dolce I'm beginning to be concerned regarding your comprehension skills, as you keep conflating 'regional accent' and 'lazy'.
It's a bit weird to be honest.

I'm so confused with the notion that if I say 'f' instead of 'th' it must mean I pronounce 'the, they, and there' as 'fe fey and fere' as someone just said. Where I live tho use words are not pronounced the same as words like 'thirsty or throat' for example. To me the 'th' in the word 'the' is not pronounced anything like in the word 'thirsty'. Wish we could send voice recordings.

@bananafish81 where are you from?

I'll take being able to speak properly over googling for archaic rubbish.

Embrace that ignorance! That's the way.