the pronounciation of the words...

cm1179 · 6 Jan 2011 at 22:49

glass, grass, laugh etc

where abouts in britain does it change? i'm in worcestershire and have always pronounced these in such a sense that grass would rhyme with lass, yet my dad was from newmarket and always pronounced it so it would rhyme with farce.

where abouts does this change in the country?

Cosimo · 6 Jan 2011 at 22:55

Down sarf we pronounce it proper with no rhyme. Those that pronounce it with rhyme are lower class. I say old chap, pass the whiskey.

explicit4u · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:00

there's slight variation from City to City but the biggest differences are regional.

cm1179 · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:00

but where abouts in the country does it switch?

Zowghi · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:02

In Doncaster they rhyme with lass

Grandmaster Fap! · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:02

Where i grew up in merseyside laugh was pronounced laff.

The Halk · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:03

Grass rhymes with lass. It doesn't rhyme with farce, because it isn't spelt grarss.

DJMK4 · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:04

Tooth brush, English say it right, as soon as you step over the water it's tuuutthhbrush. No word of a lie. I am by the bridge and I can hear both sides of the water.

Saucepan is Another one

Nitefly · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:05

cm1179 said:
pronounciation

Haha, you've spelt it how I incorrectly pronounce it

Davies_M · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:09

Well where I'm from we all say road as in rode which is apparently hilarious to everyone else...
and saucepan...sos-pan

cm1179 · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:10

The Halk said:
Grass rhymes with lass. It doesn't rhyme with farce, because it isn't spelt grarss.

it does if your bedroom is up the apples and pears

Nitefly · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:12

Oh, and actually responding to the thread, I'm from Oxford and others are amused by my own pronunciations...

Shaaaaaaaaaahrk in the caaaaaaaaaaaaaaahr paaaaaaaaaaaaaahrk

tibbsey · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:12

Grarse down in Hertfordshire.

secretspy · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:12

I say grass sounding like farce. Just the way I was brought up but most of us southerners speak that way. (surrey)
(hmm maybe that's why people say I sound posh!)

do you say toe-mar-to or to-may-to?

I know someone in Oxford who I says grass like lass. But then I know someone else from Oxford who says grass like farce lol.

buckeejit · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:12

all my family speak with broad accent but I don't (we're originally from Northern Ireland and still live here). I pronounce words differently than they do ie. butcher (I pronounce it as bootcher and they pronounce is as butt-cher which annoys me so much). strange. Nothing annoys me more than a broad Belfast accent

Aleksandrs · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:13

I say carstle, and grarss, and barth etc. down in Kent

The Halk · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:14

Aleksandrs said:
I say carstle, and grarss, and barth etc. down in Kent

But do you accept it's your accent and not the correct way to pronounce them?

DJMK4 · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:15

Apparently I have a mixed cockney/welsh accent from when I was born and lived in essex for 12 years

Aleksandrs · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:18

The Halk said:
But do you accept it's your accent and not the correct way to pronounce them?

Haha I do not

I still feel it is the correct way to pronounce it.