How do you pronounce "Anthony"?

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"AnTony" or "AnTHony"?

It's my DS's middle name - spelt Anthony and pronounced Ant-ony.

However I'm from Liverpool and my Scouse relatives pronounce it like the character from the Royle Family "Ant-nee"

Thank you all so much! We are in London so it sounds like in the SE people tend to say An-to-ny which is positive.

I'm Irish, though not from NI, and it's my dad's name - always pronounced 'Ant-ony' though spelled 'Anthony'. In the UK, the only person I know who pronounces the 'th' is my SIL, and I suspect that in her case, it's not regional, but comes from a desperate desire to appear sufficiently middle-class - I think she thinks everyone else is mispronouncing it, including the parents of a young Anthony we both know. They will say 'Come here, Antony', and SIL will immediately say 'Come and have a sweet, ANTHONY', as if she's gently leading them the right way.

Interesting question, though. Is there, as I suspect, a class as well as a regional element in UK pronunciations of the name? I know three UC Anthonys, from different parts of the country, and none of whom pronounce the 'th'...

Just thought I'd add that for centuries, the 'th' spelling in names was pronounced like a 't', So e.g. Catherine and Dorothy were pronounced Catterine and Doroty (a real 'th' sound was represented with a different symbol - think 'Ye olde'. Sorry can't replicate it here).

The pronunciation of 'th' slowly changed to the sound we know today, and it also changed in most names too - again see Catherine and Dorothy - however in some names the 't' sound remained, e.g. Esther, Thomas and Anthony.

I've heard some people try to say Es-ther, and An-thony is starting to become quite common, but I can't see it ever happening with Thomas!

Wavyglass, I can imagine! she probably says thigh food, river thaymes and brown thomas instead of tie food, brown tomas, river temz.

I know that some people in ireland who speak well otherwise struggle with when not to use the th!

Antunnee pronunciation but spelt Anthony - know lots in the NW of Irish background.

She's actually English, Stampy, but I suspect that marrying into my DH's large, vociferous, unapologetically working class family, with a uniformly strong irish regional accent, is making her socially anxious in some way I can't get my head around. She taught their sons as toddlers to say 'excrement', rather than 'poo'...

Oh yes, as I was pressing post message I spotted my mistake. Apologies!

ha ha at excrement! I bet she's the type to dream the toilet dream, you know, where you're looking for a toilet but they're all overflowing with poo! It's a common recurring dream apparently.

I'm from NI and would say Antony. Or Antnee.

I'm English - moved around a lot as a child, lived in ST, ST and NE (now overseas). I've always assumed pronouncing the "th" as "th" rather than "t" was actually totally incorrect! So I've learnt something by reading that it's the Iris pronunciation.

Spell Anthony, say "An-tun-ee" IMO

mrtumble it's not the irish pronunciation.

That's what people down thread seemed to be saying Stampy - but I see I cross posted massively.

Maybe pronouncing the "th" is just wrong then :o tbh I had always thought it was a bit Hyacinth Bucket to pronounce the "th" instead of the h being silent... But then reading the early part of the thread thought a be that's a misconception...

The h should be silent, as in Thomas.

I'm a Londoner and pronounce is AnTony but my NE family pronounce it AnTHony

yes, some hyacinth types in Ireland pronounce it athunee, we have hyacinths here too!

the other poster, her sil is English.

Well I'm Irish, not a hyacinth type by any stretch and I pronounce the TH. My Uncle of that name pronounces the TH as do all his siblings. They're from Clare, also not hyacinths.

My cousin who measures low on the Hyacinth scale also pronounces it as AnTHony.

So I personally would say the TH pronunciation is an Irish thing as Irish people also tend to emphasise the H in words such as 'what', 'where', and 'when' whereas English people do not.

The way I hear it (London) is An-tny!

The only person I know who pronounced it with the 'th' sound was Australian.

I have 2 relatives who pronounce their names AntTony
so, not pronouncing the "th"

Baby in the family has this name - Anthony spelling and definitely pronounce the H. We're in Scotland if that makes a difference to how we say it.

Ann-tony

I always thought An-tun-ee was the UK pronunciation and Anth-un-ee the US one.

I've heard Thomas pronounced with the th, but softly.
Sounds weird to me!