the pronounciation of the words...

cm1179 said:
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?
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No idea, but I pronounce them as

Glass
Grass
Laugh.

I've found no way to slang a strange variation on those words.
 
Yeah, as previously stated, it has more to do with upbringing/education that geographical location; I can listen to either without any problem as long as the pronunciation is natural and not an affectation.

I'm originally a midlander (born 5 miles from the centre of England) and use open vowels ;) but drink with a public school educated mate, who is always taking the pee by saying .... did you mean "glarse" etc despite the fact that he's married to a lass from Brid' and has lived in the North for around 20 years.

Variety is the spice of lifw .... and all that.

Scone/Scon can be pronounced either way and still be correct btw.
 
Give time, northerner sounding folk living down south can start to lose their way of saying grass and will start to say grarse. Same for most other words.

It's said, the only word you never change is rasberries. It's the true north/south test. Even a reformed northerner living in the south still says razzberries and will never say rarzberries. True fact :)
 
I say grarse, but I have to say grASS if I'm on the phone to my Dad :x

I'm a southerner with northern roots and a bit of a geordie twang, especially when I'm angry/shouty.
 
Milkybk said:
Tbh if you were going to say there was a "correct" way to say it then the Northern way is surely right?
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Er no.

Commonwealth Received Pronunciation for 'grass' is gräs as in grarse. Americans and The North use "grăs" as in grass (to rhyme with gas). The astute observer would note the correlation, presumuably due to grăs being the 'original' pronunciation.

TL;DR Northerners are backwards :eek::D
 
I say it both ways sometimes...I get labelled as posh if i pronounce say grass as grarse which i often do, as well as laugh as laurgh.
 
Very good point by Burnsy!

Woolwich and Dulwich are two others (Which as I kid used to pronounce as Wool-witch/Dul-witch. I couldn't understand why everyone else said it as Wool-itch and Dul-itch)
 
This thread is even funnier when you're from Northern Ireland and actually pronounce your "r"s.

English people, whichever part of the country, always pronounce the letter "r" very softly. To me, "glass", rhymes perfectly with "grass". For me to say "grarss" like a lot of people here have written it would just sound like another language entirely. :D
 
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