How would you pronounce Anthony?

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I'd love to use the name 'Anthony', but I've heard a lot of people (especially in the States) pronounce it using the 'h', which I really dislike. Is this likely to be a common problem?

I do get very bothered by certain pronunciations. I've already ruled out the name 'Anastasia' because I hate the way many people pronounce it with four syllables (An-uh-stay-zhuh instead of An-ah-stay-see-ah).

I'm aware that it can also be spelled 'Antony', but it just doesn't look quite right to me!

I had a family member called Anthony, it was always pronounced with the hard ‘t’ - so ‘An-tony’. He went by Ant to most people.

Husband is Anthony. Pronounced An-tuh-nee, no th sound.
His dad was English, quite posh. His mum was from the US. They both agreed the h was silent and it was a hard t sound.
I've known a few other Anthonys, all pronounced with a hard t, except one (from Kent if that's relevant) who was Anth-uh-nee. He was forever correcting people who pronounced it the hard t way.
The famous Anthonys I can think of, including Anthony Head, all seem to have the hard t.

But nobody calls him Thony?

I’m in Canada and people here pronounce the h so it’s An-th-ney

An- tow- nee. No"th" sound
I've never heard it pronounced that way until I worked with someone Irish who strangely used to fluctuate between the two pronunciations. ( Although we worked with Americans and I think the "th" might have been just for their benefit).

People in the UK pronounce the word CAR with an r ending. I have never heard anyone in the UK pronounce it with a silent r, "ca" for example doesn't happen.

Nobody in the UK marks November 5th either. We have only ever celebrated Halloween here.

In the UK we have St Patrick's Day, celebrating Patrick our national saint.

In the UK our national colour is green.

The UK full breakfast is known as an "Ulster Fry". Essential ingredients in a fry up are potato bread and soda farl (have never known anyone in the UK not to have either of those in it).

Etc etc.

I’m NE England and know both. Not an age thing as one Anthony - pronounced with th sound - is 7 years old. If anything around here I’d say this was the more common pronunciation. As others have said, if it’s going to annoy you choose a different name or spell it Antony x

Well.....between DH and I we have a brother, a stepbrother, an uncle, a second cousin AND a nephew each called Anthony, so consider ourselves experts!

All spelled with a "th" and all pronounced with a hard "t". I can't imagine many Brits getting it wrong.

From south east and always heard Anthony with a hard t.
Then moved further north to the Shires and we have it with the th pronunciation. I don't like it, so don't do it.

I would pronounce it with a T not th.

And spell it Anthony.

As in Anthony and Cleopatra.

Yes

Nov 5th is Guy Fawkes here
Halloween is Oct 31st (All Hallows Eve)

Surely the dates are the same in Scotland and Ireland?

In a real Dublin accent it would be
Ant knee 😀

I'd say it with a hard T, AnT-o-knee but in the SouthWest where I live I have heard a softened version Ant-A-knee.

My brother is an Anthony, pronounced Antony or Ant-knee by all of our family in Ireland!

I don't understand your comment.

Yes, we pronounce car as car, unless you are talking about a Ka.

Every selfish fucker celebrates the 5th November, aka bonfire night. I hate the fuckers because I have had rescue dogs who are petrified but that is another thread. Halloween is celebrated at the end of October.

We don't celebrate St George's Day in England (no bank holiday).

North-east England here. In my area we pronounce it An-thun-ee- the American way.

Nov 5th isn’t celebrated in ROI for obvious reasons. Not sure about NI or Scotland.

I’d also pronounce the ‘th’.
I’m Scorrish.

@WhenICalledYouLastNightFromTesco

PP was making a point about people typically making England the ‘default’ country for the UK and assuming what happens in England happens UK-wide.

It doesn’t, as her NI examples clearly show.

I really like Antony, like the roman general. Not sure where the h in Anthony sprang from but it can go right back there afaic.

I get that, and I will think on. The thread was about a bloody name though. I say Antony with my English accent, and my ROI born family say Anthony (Anthonee), much more beautiful than our pronunciation in the UK imo.

What bonfire night and Halloween has to do with it, I missed.

And as much as people like it or not, Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

Yes, but that was pp’s point.
The UK isn’t just England.

I know 🤣. I'll shut up now. But I fucking hate Bonfire night.