How do you pronounce 'nothing' and 'rant'

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AIBU to think that the way my dp pronounces these words isn't particularly common?

He pronounces 'nothing' with the 'o' sounding as the 'o' does in 'moth'.

I say 'nothing' sounding like 'n-uh-thing'.

He pronounces 'rant' sounding like you'd say 'can't'.

I say 'rant' sounding like you'd say 'ant'.

I'm not saying that either one of us is right as I'm sure both are, but he's the only person I've heard pronounce them this way!

Nuh-thing here.
Car-nt (long a)
Rant and ant (short a)
My accent is fairly close to the RP you learn at drama school.

Nuthing

Rant, can’t and ant all sound the same.

Nuthin and rant but with a global stop on the t.

Nuthing
Rant,ant and can't all rhyme in my accent.I'm in Scotland

Nothing as in moth
Rant as in ant

I’ve heard people saying ‘nuhthing’ and always register it as unusual around these parts! Hear it on TV more often, I think.

Depends on your accent though - in mine (Scottish), rant, ant and can't all sound exactly the same.

I pronounce nothing like your dh does and rant like you do.

I always thought ‘can’t’ was ‘cannae’ in Scots. I am sadly disillusioned.

Rant as in ant (can't would sound as carn"t)

Nothing as nuh-thing (not as in moth, goth or cloth)

I can see hear liverpool accents saying it your DP's way. If he's not from liverpool - did he watch brookside a lot as a kid?

I’m trying to work out how you pronounce ‘can’t’ so it doesn’t rhyme with ant or rant - also Scottish. Usually ‘nuthing’ for nothing though.

I pronounce "nothing" like "nuthing", "rant" like "ant" and "can't" like "carnt".

To me, rant and ant rhyme with each other, but can’t rhymes with aren’t.

I'm Glaswegian and pronounce both words in the same way as the OP, but my father was from Invernessshire and he (and other friends and family from up that way) pronounced them in the same way as the OP's husband.

It's probably quite a regional thing, in my experience east coast?

On that note, I can't get my head around that advert for Surf that tries to rhyme the 'perf' sound in 'perform' with 'surf'.

I've lived in a lot of places and have never once heard somebody pronounce 'perform' as 'purf-form', where would that be a thing?

Rant, ant, can’t - all the same. Also the same as aunt,

Nothing - not the same as nuthing. Slightly more of an ‘o’ sound.

And as always, my brain feels like it will implode when I try to figure out the random written ‘r’ in the middle of words that have ‘ah’, ‘au’ or ‘a’ sounds in them. As an Irish person I just don’t get it 🙈

Nuthing and rant to rhyme with ant

I know somebody who pronounces "vase" like "noise" - I had no idea what he meant the first time he said it!

Rant with the 'a' the same as in car?

Every kind of wrong.

I pronounce them the way you do.

I have occasionally heard people pronounce 'nothing' the same way your DH does. But I have never heard anyone, ever, pronounce 'rant' to rhyme with 'can't'. That's really weird.

I pronounce them the way you do. I have occasionally heard people pronounce 'nothing' the same way your DH does. But I have never heard anyone, ever, pronounce 'rant' to rhyme with 'can't'. That's really weird

This. Nothing - I can imagine a number of accents where 'noth' would rhyme with moth. But rant to rhyme with can't is just odd.

I never understand these kind of posts.

It makes absolute perfect sense that you pronounce can't, ant and rant the same, because you say you are Scottish. I am not Scottish, but I have heard many Scottish people in my life.

The way you pronounce can't so it doesn't rhyme with ant, is to elongate the a sound, so it's more of a "cahhn't" sound, as opposed to a short a sound in ant. This is how I and very many (not all) English people say it.

I cahhhn't believe that you have not heard this thousands of times. Have you never heard an English person speak?

No region pronounces 'rant' as 'rarnt' - he's just looked at it written down, and guessed at the pronunciation.

The word 'nothing' varies widely region to region.

London/southern England.

I pronounce perform as purform. Or, as I don't have rhotic R, as puh-form.

When I hear Scots people pronounce a word like perform, the first syllable sounds like Pear to me.

My eldest DD says rant as raarnt- I have informed her that she is wrong. Where does this come from? Is it an American thing?
Nothing is acceptable either way - I think the o sound is how people in the midlands / north say it ?

Lol are you in my house? I pronounce like your DH. I’m from Lyndhurst, just down the road from Bournemouth. My DH pronounces like you. He’s from Essex.