I’m in the US and I pronounce it, I think a lot of people do? Maybe I just know a lot of snobs and “regular” Americans mush the word together but I don’t think so
I’m not sure where you’re from, but the th is indeed silent in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced any different than ‘close’.
I’m not sure where you’re from, the th in is always pronounced in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced the same as ‘close’
I will say that people got called out for pronouncing it the same as the spice ‘cloves’.
FWIW My area = rural southern UK.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh well that’s easy then, it’s because you guys speak British, not English!
Kidding aside, I lived in East Anglia for a few years as a kid and I don’t remember the British kids saying it that way either, but that was a really long time ago and my memory ain’t what it used to be! I think. I can’t remember how it used to be actually.
BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s because you guys speak British, not English!
Fighting talk, sirrah! Fighting talk… But yes, I guess.
British English has been described as three languages dressed up in a trenchcoat that go around mugging other languages in dark alleys and stealing the best bits…
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T, yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.
BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T,
Not at all. Used to make fun of people who did.
yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.
No - there are two sounds for A, bath (short, as in cat) for tub of usually hot water and Bath (long, as in car) for the city famous for its hot water. Never heard it like O - no, wait… RP has an O sounding A doesn’t it? Lloyd Grossman was famous for his mangling of vowel sounds.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_p…
Meanwhile, why do we pronounce cheese as cheeze?
Who threw the Z sound in there?
BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeh cheese as cheeze is an odd one - especially considering the z is “zed” not “zee”… I guess cheese is where the idea of “zee” came from?
ODuffer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah absolutely not silent. Unless perhaps you’re a cockney.