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?)

Harth - Scottish borders. Definitely not a Scottish/North thing. Never heard of birth.

Fireplace!

@Mybestgirl

I’ve never heard ‘berried’ instead of ‘birried’

@Mybestgirl Seriously? What fresh hell is this 'birried'? Birried doesn't exist as a pronunciation. It is berry-ied. Even the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries show this. buried

/ˈbɛrɪd/
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adjective
placed or hidden underground.
"buried treasure"
covered up or repressed.
"for many, music is a gateway to unlocking buried emotions"
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When you click on the audio icon, the lady very clearly says berryied.

Harth. I'm Scottish. Never heard it pronounced hirth.

@SamiReed1 exactly! If I was going to mispronounce “buried”, which I’m not, I’d lengthen the vowel to “bear-eed”. Or I can imagine “burry-ed” in some accents. WTF is “birried”?

Pronunciation of buried as birried is common in West of Scotland

County Cork and I say 'Harth'. The Germanic Goddess Hertha is on charge of fires so maybe 'hirth' is indeed an older pronunciation?

@romdowa

I say hart and I'm from the very South of Ireland, my father says hirth and is from the South East. So it may be a regional thing.

Tinteán !

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@TuesdayRuby

I have ALWAYS called it a “hirth”. But now I’ve reached a mature age where I need to actually buy one, I was astonished to hear the man in the stove shop call it a “harth”!!

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Quite surprised at the posters who have never heard of a hearth.
Also, those saying "just call it a fireplace" are incorrect.

The hearth is not the entire fireplace but only the "shelf" at the front on the floor where you might keep spare logs or a bucket of coal and your fireplace furniture i.e. a poker set.
Most fireplaces (even modern ones) have a hearth. It's just part of the structure.

I pronounce it harth.

West of Scotland - Harth and birried here. Closest I can come up with to explain it is we say 'bury' to rhyme with 'piri piri'

@traintraveller

Pronunciation of buried as birried is common in West of Scotland

Some people from the west coast pronounce Dundee as Dindee so I can understand that

Hearth. I'm Irish.

Pronounced harth that is!