Lighthearted - to think DP's pronunciation of 'hearth' is odd?

[SarahAndQuack]

I say 'hearth' to rhyme with Darth (Vader).

She says 'hearth' to rhyme with 'birth'.

I think she is deeply deviant. Which of us is right?

(Or if, as I predict, you tell me it's regional, can you tell when were you're from?)

According to Google it's pronounced 'haath' so to rhyme with Darth but without the 'r' being emphasised, as in some accents. More like 'hahth'.

People say it like birth?!! No way! I wouldn't have a monkeys what they were on about, always said like Darth and only ever heard others say the same....though granted it doesn't come up all that often.

That’s more or less how I say it ha (like ha ha) th

I'm west of Scotland and its harth not hirth.
I've asked my WhatsApp group of uni friend and the primary class group. Everyone has said harth!

Harth
But in fairness from the way it is written it’s totally forgiveable to think that it’s pronounced hirth

‘Harsh’. London.

Definitely to rhyme with Darth (I'm from the midlands)
But why would anyone say this? How many people actually have a hearth? I'm betting not many. Unless you are all time travellers from a century or more ago.

It's a "harth" for me 😁

‘Harth’- doh!

Harth. I'm Irish.

Harth. Oi am from Baaaaaaarkshoire.

I’m from London and say hirth, like birth. The shame of mispronouncing it for all these years 🤦‍♀️😂

I say it to rhyme with birth. West of Scotland.

Live in Scotland and of Irish descent. Definitely harth

H aah th there's no discernible r in it. Derbyshire.

Dark
Derbyshire
Darth

the r in hearth is soft, an ahh like a sigh rather than r like in Darth etc

Harth to rhyme with darth - originally Liverpool, also lived in North Wales/London/Wiltshire/Yorkshire, and never heard it pronounced any other way.
Oh, and like a PP, clerk should be pronounced ‘clark’!

Harth.
I'm Scottish.

My family are all Northern Irish, but I grew up in Yorkshire.

We all say 'harth'. Can't recall anyone I know saying 'hirth' but I probably have, just nodded along and pretend I knew what it meant, when I had no clue and didn't figure it out.

Harth. Because of heart.

I just googled it. It comes from proto Germanic hertha meaning burning place so I can see how hertha became herth to rhyme with birth. Which means it's us harthers who've cocked it up 🤣

I'm now trying to think if I've actually heard it be said but I've just always thought is was said how it's spelled

I’ve leave come across this word before, what does it mean?

Looking at it I would have said it hirth

It’s defo ‘Garth’, or harth, never heard anyone pronounce it hirth. I’m from central Scotland

It's the floor of a fireplace.

Garth

Scottish