Poll: Bath or Barth?

How do you pronounce "Bath"?

  • Bath, I'm a freak.

    Votes: 149 55.0%

  • Barth.

    Votes: 107 39.5%

  • Baath.

    Votes: 15 5.5%
  • Total voters
    271
Vixen said:
There is no r in the word bath, so why on earth would you add one? It's almost as stupid as saying "spar" instead of "spa".
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By that token 'though' should be pronounced 'th-owg-h'.

Don't try and argue from consistency when it comes to pronunciation in English; it's a mess of a language ;)

Every language has variations in the pronunciation of its letters and combinations of letters. This is why the IPA exists – it's not possible to unambiguously denote the pronunciation of any word in a language using just the letters of that language itself.
 
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Barth - I've lived up north for nearly 8 years and have picked up a few local words and sayings such as aye, lass as they're simply not said down south but am still able to say words correctly! :)
 
MikeTimbers said:
Barth (the North begins at the Thames, by the way)
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I'd say North begins at the border but hey... :p

Edit: Though would not be pronounced Th-owg-h since it's the combination of letters that make the sound. Adding and R in a word for no reason is different and stupid...
 
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