Poll: Bath or Barth?

[Jon1818]

Bath, yes midlands people are the best.

 

[semi-pro waster]

It has to be bath, I don't see why would add in either an "h" for "bahth" or an "r" for "barth".

 

[Zefan]

It's "Barth", using the same sound for the a that is in "Father".

Look up the Trap-bath split, it actually shows that the broad A pronunciation (my/the southern way) came after the northern way.


:edit: Actually most of the time, if I'm talking to mates/casually I say "baath", definitely never said "bath" with a short a though, that's reserved for northern types...

 

[BenjiSayers]

Being from Brighton - has to be BARF.

 

[InvaderGIR]

What do you mean, Bath, Barth or Baath? That's three different words. If you want to know how people say the first word, then you've got to come up with a way in which you can type it without it being the word.

All I know is that I say it the proper way.

InvG

 

[Zefan]

What do you mean, Bath, Barth or Baath? That's three different words. If you want to know how people say the first word, then you've got to come up with a way in which you can type it without it being the word.

All I know is that I say it the proper way.

InvG

I'm asked how you pronounce "Bath", and given 3 "words" that explain the different ways of pronouncing without going into too much stupid depth.

Pretty simple I thought.

 

[InvaderGIR]

Well to me the word bath, is at a push spelt barth I guess, but because I read/say whichever way I do I find it hard to work out which way is which, as the others could fit too...barring baaath.

Maybe I'm just too simple.

InvG

 

[Gezzard]

Barth.

As I do with Grarss, brarss, etc. It's not 'posh' just southern.

 

[mattyrigby00]

bath

 

[Buffman]

Bath, never heard of this Barth you speak of :O

 

[Nismo]

Bath.

Barth or any other variant sounds poncy, posh and frankly ridiculous

 

[Tesla]

BAFF

I am from Bristol.

 

[something daft already!!]

Barth, do you say "tom-art-o" or "tom-ay-toe"?

 

[Nismo]

Barth, do you say "tom-art-o" or "tom-ay-toe"?

Comparison fails...

How do you pronounce Cath, as in short for Catherine? It certainly isn't Carth, is it?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Barth, do you say "tom-art-o" or "tom-ay-toe"?

Tom-a-to. It's really easy, as Roy Walker would tell you, say what you see. Just because you can doesn't mean you should add in extra letters.

 

[MarcLister]

Barth, do you say "tom-art-o" or "tom-ay-toe"?

Tom-art-o.

 

[Mansize_tissue]

I say barth, I've never heard it being called otherwise.

 

[Morba]

Same difference in pronunciation surely? Bahth and barth sound the same.

sounds nothing like the same!
goto Bath and ask people who live there how it is pronounced ;]

 

[Bear]

sounds nothing like the same!
goto Bath and ask people who live there how it is pronounced ;]

I lived there for four years as a student and call it Barth

 

[Bear]

Tom-a-to. It's really easy, as Roy Walker would tell you, say what you see. Just because you can doesn't mean you should add in extra letters.

So how would you pronounce Siobhan or Sean, Roy walker stylee ??