the pronounciation of the words...

[Aleksandrs]

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

Requoted for troof

 

[Morba]

Or Loughborough, or Worcester.

Towcester or Southwark!

 

[Cosimo]

We Southerners speak English properly.

You Northern lot are butchering our language!

I was expecting that one earlier.

 

[Frapple]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

 

[Morba]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

It's Baath actually.

 

[Cosimo]

It's Baath actually.

That's for sheep only.

 

[Castiel]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

Erm, it's the pronunciation of the 'a' phonetically that means it's Bahth.

Either way is actually correct, so you're getting annoyed over nothing.


Any dictionary with give you the accepted pronunciation.

Grass for example is either gras or grahs.....

it is adding a 'h' not 'r' if you want to be pedantic.

 

[Castiel]

That's for sheep only.

Or Iraqi's of a certain politics.

 

[Macro]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

This comes from the same school of thought that says the letter "H" should be said "haitch" rather than "aitch" because "thats the letter it starts with"..

Next up the letter "L" being pronounced "Lell" for the same reasoning...

Pronunciation and spelling are not the same thing. Beware crazy northerners taking us down a slippery path to speaking "American English", although that truely is English for the hard of thinking...

 

[Pestilence]

...although that is truely English for the hard of thinking...

Don't you mean "haahhhd"?

 

[Macro]

Touche!

 

[clv101]

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

That's rather missing the point! Pronunciation doesn't follow automatically from spelling.

 

[ikillbears]

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.

Here here.

 

[Jonny69]

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)

Woolidge and Dullidge if you're from rand ere

 

[Freefaller]

For a Johnny foreigner I speak what I've been told is "posh" or "BBC English" - whatever that means! Quite funny really. I'm sure those that have met me will be able to describe my accent properly. For the record, I pronounce them so that they rhyme with "arse".

As for the OP, I don't know where the accent changes - probably as you get towards the Midlands I would imagine. Certainly the SW and SE parts of the country have always pronounced it the way I do.

Although received pronounciation is a way of speaking, I wouldn't call it "the correct way". Accents are just part and parcel of it all.

 

[meghatronic]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

???

There doesn't need to be an "r" in it as there is an /ä/ in it. It is this that sounds like "r". E.g. bar - with an 'r' in it - is pronounced bär.

Although received pronounciation is a way of speaking, I wouldn't call it "the correct way". Accents are just part and parcel of it all.

I would say that RP is the 'correct way' of speaking, but it is certainly not indicative of intelligence or ability. I don't judge people for using any accent or dialect - I may just mock them. Reciprocal for being mocked myself during a displaced youth.

 

[Aleksandrs]

This comes from the same school of thought that says the letter "H" should be said "haitch" rather than "aitch" because "thats the letter it starts with"..

I'm a southerner, and as such I think my accent is the correct original English accent. However I also pronounce H as "haitch". I always perceived "aitch" to be completely wrong, and it sounds wrong for me too.

 

[Cosimo]

People who say Barth annoy me.

It's bath. There is no R in it.

You’d be really annoyed by the people who say barf.

 

[meghatronic]

I'm a southerner, and as such I think my accent is the correct original English accent. However I also pronounce H as "haitch". I always perceived "aitch" to be completely wrong, and it sounds wrong for me too.

But there is no h in it. It's aytch.

 

[jellybeard999]

But there is no h in it. It's aytch.

What do you mean there's no H in it? It's not even a word is it, just phonetically writing down how you think it should be pronounced. Given the letter you're trying to pronounce is H, surely there's a stronger case for it having one than not.