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How do you, personally, pronounce 'wrath'?

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by art_vandelay

Because if you pronounce so it rhymes with roth I'll pronounce you. Dead.

art_vandelay | 05 Jul '07, 19:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It's supposed to rhyme with roth

My history teacher told me.


I just looked it up in the OED

It is roth. Or rorth, apparently, but I'm guessing that's only if you're posh. No rath.


Pah

What does the OED know? I will carry on pronouncing it as rath except for in front of my girlfriend's dad who thinks people who pronounce the french word 'fin' as 'fin' are ignoramuses.


I have a California non-accent

it's the rest of everybody with the funny pronunciations.


erm "rath"

I like how brits pronounce 'schedule'. I'm like a "shed u" what? Oh, skedjewel.


rath

who the fuck pronounces is 'roth' (apart from intimidating wrestlers)?


copycat


the same people

who pronounce 'bath' as 'bawth'


roth?

who the fuck says it like that? hang the lot if em i say


The channel 4 announcer guy

said "Cape Roth" on an advert for gritty Brit drama 'Cape Wrath'.


Channel 4 announcers are bloody idiots though

a lot of them say "fillum" instead of "film". Retards


I think

it's the same guy. Oop next on fillum fooor, Trearnspo'in.


It's roth

It may sound antiquated and a bit posh. But it's roth dammit


i reckon i might say roth

i can't remember, but i grew up in detroit, so i have an excuse


.

roth


rath

"roth" sounds like the way British people talk in american films.


But

it sounds less threatening as roth. It's supposed to strike fear into men, not get confused with meaty water.


You're not supposed to say it

Warlords and wrestlers are.

And they don't say roth.

They say

WRRRRRRROOOOOOOTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And THAT, my friend, sounds scary.


Obviously

"you will feel the rath of my bombast."


Vrass

!


rath

but then i also pronounce bath as bath and grass as grass.


same.

^5


^5


roth


Rath

because wrath has an 'a' in i not an 'o'. He clues in the spelling.


And ironically

my spelling in that post was shit. that should be 'in it' and 'The clues'.

*sigh*


roth

like philip


My idiotic media teacher says 'ROTH'.

But she's Welsh, so she gets off with it.


well

uk - roth
usa - rath

but the influx of american tv programmes has led to british people thinking that rath is the correct one, leading a whole world of confusion


i say rath

but i know i'm common


i pronounce it

rathing good fun


I got pretty annoyed

with people on big brother (both the 'big brothers' and the housemates) pronouncing it as 'rath.' I looked it up in the Chambers Dictionary (the definitive?) and it stated quite unclearly that it should be pronounced either as 'roth,' or something which i think (i cant read phonetic alphabet) sounds like 'rorth,' and something which sounds like 'rarth.' Now since only toffy bastards would say the latter two, in all my life I have been right to think it 'roth.'

Its like people say 'laying' instead of 'lying.' American infiltration.


More 'rath'

But it's somewhere in-between 'roth' and 'rath'. Like an A pronounced with the tone typical of an O? If that makes any sense at all? I would suppose not ...





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