Poll: How do you say twat?

[curty129]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

Ooh, snap!

OT: Tw@. It's what the large majority of people say, and this thread has evidently proven it. (But yeah yeah, it's right either way.)

I'm only posting because Mr.Weeds here got him real good ;3

It's Ms. Grammar Police Weeds tyvm! haha

Oo. I'm awfully sory.


[sub]..how badly do you want to correct that, punk? >:[/sub]

 

[intheweeds]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

You are quite correct, in English each letter has a 'hard' and 'soft' pronunciation. But neither pronunciation of 'a' sounds like either pronunciation of 'o', so I shall continue to be as smarmy as I like!

say 'talk'. now say 'hot'. now say them both without the first letter. seriously?

 

[TehKnifeh]

Sod this for a game of soldiers, I am sticking with tart. Can't get that one wrong can we?.... can we?!

OT: it's the twat in the hat, not the twat in s.w.a.t (rolled of the tounge better then expected)

 

[intheweeds]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

Ooh, snap!

OT: Tw@. It's what the large majority of people say, and this thread has evidently proven it. (But yeah yeah, it's right either way.)

I'm only posting because Mr.Weeds here got him real good ;3

It's Ms. Grammar Police Weeds tyvm! haha

Oo. I'm awfully sory.


[sub]..how badly do you want to correct that, punk? >:[/sub]

haha! ok, its time for me to go. idk why i'm having so much fun in this pointless thread this morning!

 

[curty129]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

Ooh, snap!

OT: Tw@. It's what the large majority of people say, and this thread has evidently proven it. (But yeah yeah, it's right either way.)

I'm only posting because Mr.Weeds here got him real good ;3

It's Ms. Grammar Police Weeds tyvm! haha

Oo. I'm awfully sory.


[sub]..how badly do you want to correct that, punk? >:[/sub]

haha! ok, its time for me to go. idk why i'm having so much fun in this pointless thread this morning!

Because of me.

Obviously.



There isn't much discussion to this thread, so I don't really know what else to add.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

You are quite correct, in English each letter has a 'hard' and 'soft' pronunciation. But neither pronunciation of 'a' sounds like either pronunciation of 'o', so I shall continue to be as smarmy as I like!

say 'talk'. now say 'hot'. now say them both without the first letter. seriously?

If I was being serious do you think I'd be involved with a load of strangers on the internet discussing the pronunciation of swear words?!? /bemused

Oh, sorry, let me fix that:

If I wos being seriaus da yau think I'd be invalved with o laod of strongers an the internet discussing the pranunciotian of sweor wards?!? /bemused

 

[Gitty101]

In most areas in Britain I've heard it pronounced "Twat". I've never heard anyone say "Twot" before...

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

Tw as in twinkie, at as in... at. Like >at< the beach.

 

[Master Kuja]

Like "hat".

Considering the word is primarily of British English origin, and that's how you'll hear it pronounced in the UK, I'd suggest that, as in hat, is the correct pronunciation and I am legitimately baffled as to how the word attained an "as in hot" pronunciation.

 

[MarcusD357]

Rhymes with hat, it's the nly way I've ever heard it said, and I hear it quite a lot..
It sounds best if you get a welshman to say "Fucking twat him", it sounds more like "Fockin' twat 'im". Probably ot the best way to describe that.. It sounds better in my head..

 

[Magicman10893]

I pronounce it like it rhymes with "swat." The "W-A" part is what makes it sound different. I guess it really depends where put stress on it, like the two different ways to pronounce tomato, "Toe-may-toe" or "Tah-mah-toe." In the end it usually comes down to a regional thing.

On a similar note, my whole life I was told that the state of Nevada was pronounced "Neh-va-dah" and recently I've been hearing people pronounce it as "Nah-vah-dah."

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/twat

Shows clearly it's 'at'.

Shows clearly it's both, actually:

twæt tw&#592;t

It's a little hard to see the symbols in this font, but they're pronounced like this:

æ cat /kæt/
&#592; got /g&#592;t/

And yes, the &#592; pronunciation is a US regional thing, and it's a much naughtier word there.

 

[intheweeds]

Well it's spelled 't.w.a.t' so I pronounce it as such. I would only pronounce it to rhyme with 'hot' if it was spelled 't.w.o.t'.

Ever since I've been able to talk I've had this strange compulsion to pronounce words how they're spelled, it's weird.

Its too bad the english language has two or more legal pronunciations for each vowel. For instance, smarmy-pants, you typed 'talk'. How do you pronounce that, pray tell?

You are quite correct, in English each letter has a 'hard' and 'soft' pronunciation. But neither pronunciation of 'a' sounds like either pronunciation of 'o', so I shall continue to be as smarmy as I like!

say 'talk'. now say 'hot'. now say them both without the first letter. seriously?

If I was being serious do you think I'd be involved with a load of strangers on the internet discussing the pronunciation of swear words?!? /bemused

Oh, sorry, let me fix that:

If I wos being seriaus da yau think I'd be invalved with o laod of strongers an the internet discussing the pranunciotian of sweor wards?!? /bemused

^ *pedals backwards* ^

 

[LightspeedJack]

Ter-WAT! *Salutes

 

[jpoon]

rhymes with hot.

 

[The Lugz]

however you like, it's your mouth
some people around here say 'taah-wat' ive heard many variations, mostly depending how it is intended..