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Which is right?

depends which part of the country you are from, with dialect there is no right answer as such

Now piss Orfffff.

niether its pathway

i feel like a teacher now

How about a garden path? I've never heard anyone call that a garden pathway. Well, maybe the Queen does?

Okay, for those that are thrown by the lack of -way, how about this instead:

Bath (Barth) or Bath (Baff) - the city of Bath Spa.

and

bath (barth) or bath (baff) - the place you have a wash.

I think the accepted rule of thumb is that if you have a job you pronounce it with an 'r' in it.

lol :)

i wash in the shower


but the city is Bath as in Barth unless yoru common


man i used to go out in Bath on a saturday night when i was doing my training down there and there was a lot of common people down there

You should see Bristol. More chavs and chavettes per square mile than any other place on Earth apparently :) Still love the place though :)

is it a shower or a H2o dissipation device???????

shower as if you get the right head on it can dissipate more than just H2O

hence Ed's colonic enquiry

i meant you can get heads nowadays where you can get shampoo or gel with the press of a button so your not messing around searching for bottles

therefore ed gets lubricated and cleaned all in 1 swift action

How about including the correct option in the poll?

:dontask:

Not sure what you mean?

I believe the correct answer is path.
hope this helps.

path

bath

No 'ff' at the end, and no 'ar' in the middle.  How it's supposed to be pronounced.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.

Although as with foreign languages then local pronunciation always takes precedent, so the place Bath would be pronounced Barth because that's what I think the locals call it, although I would defer to anybody with greater knowledge if the local pronunciation is something else.

Try saying Barth with a scottish accent..it just doesnt work :-(

Newcastle and Castleford are two place names that should NEVER be pronounced with a long 'arr' sound.

Newcarstle and Carstleforrd every time for me :)

I thought you might Marrrtt.

lol :)

Slightly OT, but one thing I have to try and correct myself saying is "nerrly" instead of "nearly". Proper farmer-like that is.

Which fits in with my practice of pronouncing it like the locals do.

Aye, but do you also say "Brizzle" (Bristol) and "Auld Landan Town" (London)?

p.s. how do you write the London version of Landan Town (can't work out how to write how the Town bit should be pronounced...)

it aint called london by londoners ... its "the smoke"

unless of course you are a minted stuck up yuppie in which case it isnt london OR the smoke, its Knightsbridge or Mayfair ;)

Does that work for foreign cities, for example, Tokyo?

or cardiff

Yes - in theory, but I won't in practice because people might give me funny looks.

Also, on a related theme, if I said I was going to Abertawe for example then many people I know wouldn't where I was talking about.

i was watching an episode of identity on the bbc iplayer the other night

and one of the indentities was speaks 5 forgien langauges

so when asked for verbal clues from one girl she replyed that she played hockey in a broad geordie accent

so the contestant marked her down as not english so she can speak atleast 2 languages

needless to say she didnt win the £10k

somewhere close to swansea i think jon

Two more for you;


Schedule...

Shed-ule  (Brits)
Sked-ule  (yanks)


Project.... (The task not the sticking out)

Pro-ject (kiwis)
Proj-ect (Brits)

As a standard rule.

Yanks and Kiwi's are never correct.

To-may-toe (Yank)

To-ma-to (Ours)


now lets call the whole thread off

Direct. 

Dai-rect (British English and correct)

D'rrect (Yankee and incorrect)

Direct Line have started pronouncing it D'rrect in their adverts - why?  Don't know if they're cheaper for insurance, but it makes me not want to use them - and for that reason, I'm out.

O-reg-an-o

Ore-gano

Route 66

Rowt 66

uck a duck

*&^% a duck

Football

Footbahl

Football

Saaacka

Oh, and whilst we're on the subject - 'Soccer Mom' - what's that about?

Aluminum

weirdos

a

My too favourite American-pronounced words are alluminium (alluminum) and oregano. (or-egano).

Just to annoy everyone I always pronounce those two words in that manner. Get corrected every single time - "don't you mean Aluminium?". But then, that's why I do it I guess lol ;)

I also like the way "New Orleans" is pronounced - as in "Noo Orlands".

The Americans don't mis-pronounce Aluminium, they mis-spell it.

Supposedly a history of how the debate started:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

Can't help you with 'soccer moms' though.