Pronunciation of water

[Machiavellian]

To me it's wor-ter. I keep hearing 'wor-eh'. Is this not lazy? Why is the t being excluded? Am I being snobbish for thinking it sounds so lazy and uneducated?

It's just different accents. I don’t think it's lazy. The glottal stop replacing the t is commonplace in London and probably other parts of the UK too.

It's an accent/dialect thing. There isn't a 'correct' accent.

Really? You've never heard of different accents? There's loads and loads of UK accents that drop the T. There's no such thing as a correct accent.

Gosh. I consider myself corrected. And uncomfortable. It's always been drilled into me to speak properly so it really sticks out. But fair enough.

There is no r in the pronunciation

I think I say waah-ter

As others have pointed out, it's an accent thing as I definitely don't say it the way you do.

No, I agree with you!

Where I live it’s war-ta. Without the t being pronounced is common around here.

Warter, as in someone who collects warts. (Southerner who moved North)

There is in Yorkshire

In Majorca?

Waw-ter

Scottish

I personally love a strong accent and find it sad that so many are being watered down for so many reasons. However, if we are ensuring "proper" pronunciation in Kings English there is no r.

Your properly and someone else's properly might be completely different! I'm Welsh, so in my accent many words would be pronounced differently to how you would pronounce them. Doesn't mean I'm speaking the language wrong, just differently to you.

We'd be a very boring country if everyone walked around speaking with received pronunciation 🙃

Pronounce your mutha humping hard ‘t’s’ - people.

The irony of being upset at an omitted "t" (when glottal stops are a perfectly normal aspect of some accents) while failing to notice your added "r" (a perfectly acceptable aspect of many English accents)... There is not one "correct" way of speaking and what has been drilled into you is based on classism. Waw-tir for me in Scotland 😁 or sometimes Waw-ir! Glottal stops common north of the border

Don't watch EastEnders OP, you won't be able to cope.

I pronounce it as "warter"

I'm sure it's ghastly!

At least you don't have to listen to it being pronounced as wah-der! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

There’s only one r - wau-ter. Scotland.

like drawing - it’s not draw-ring to me, but I hear it a lot on the Beeb .

I mean... they're missing out the 't' but you're adding in an 'r' so 🤷🏻‍♀️

In my accent it watt-er. No r!

Surely even if it is dialect there are times when it is necessary to speak more formal English. If I was interviewing somebody for a job where they needed to represent the company, for example, I would not want a member of staff who spoke in that way.

War-tuh.