How do AWAD-ers around the world pronounce this word? I would pronounce it to rhyme with moth. I heard an Australian today pronounce it the same way, but he then immediately corrected himself to pronounce it to rhyme with math (yes, I know this is a USn abbreviation, but that pronunciation of wrath sounds American to me as well).
Bingley
wrath (Grapes of...)
math
path
hath (what God wrought)
lath (and plaster)
...all pronounced the same to me, and similar to cad, has, fat, lap and so on. (And occasionally even "almond," though that I consider to be the New York accent showing through. The rest of the time it's "al-" as in "palm.")
(NYC born and raised, NE influence as adult))
Wrath (to rhyme with math) is a noun; wroth (to rhyme with moth) is an adjective, meaning wrathful or angry.
Per AHD3
This strine sez roth.
stales
When you bathe, do you call it a bawth?
roth/moth for me too.
And wwh, I say, 'baath'
Dear maahey: Baa,baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?
I'm glad you didn't get wroth.
Walked into that one with her eyes closed, she did!
wroth/moth for me too.
And wwh, I say, 'baath'
wroth/moth here - and you can say baath, just don't say ba'ath. Hi, Echeleon
You pronounce all those words the same? Here's how I pronounce most of them
http://maxqnz.com/wrath.mp3
Your voice is sooooooo sweet, sjm! You just post those mp3 files any ol' time you feel like it, whether talking about moths or baths or lathes or wraithes or anything at all.
I pronounce it to rhyme with math.
Reminds me of a Grouch movie in which his secretary comes in and says, "Are you ready for your next client now? Mr. Jennings is waxing wroth."
Groucho takes out his cigar, waggles his eyebrows, and rejoins, "Well, go back out there and tell Roth to wax Jennings for a while."
Too bad it was Jennings instead of Johnson!
...do you call it a bawth?
Nope - barth
parth, parss, glarss etc
stales
parth, parss, glarss etc
Now don't be sticking no non-rhotic Rs in there without no sound files to be backing you up.
I pronounce it "rorth". "Roth" is wroth. Rath doesn't exist in my lexicon.
- Pfranz
So how'd'y'all pernounce wroth?
I'm not sayin'. I jest said.
- Pfranz
Around here its
wrath, math, path, hath and bath
but bathe (the verb, as opposed to bath, the noun) and lathe (to go with plaster)
and lathe (to go with plaster)
really? I thought that was lath, and to lathe is to turn wood to make finials, etc...
Or maybe sour grapes?
- Pfranz
etaoin, Hmmmmm that latht pronunthiathion of mine could be a mithtake. best read in a tigger voice
Rath doesn't exist in my lexicon.
What about those old Sherlock Holmes movies, with Basil Rathbone? How would you pronounce his name, then?
(I keep trying to make it "Razzle Bathbone," of course, with barely suppressed giggles, but usually I can contain it.)