Poll: How do you say twat?

[Ilikemilkshake]

I really dont understand how anyone could think it was twot...
obviously it rhymes with hat.

 

[Phishfood]

Rhymes with hot. That's how I say it.

So you call people twots? Must sound like a real twat!

OT: Rhymes with hat, if not it really would be twot. I don't even see how that's open to interpretation.

I had the twots the other day..

My money is on rhyming with ducking hat.

 

[Shraggler]

I personally pronounce it as if it rhymes with hat. As far as I understand, it's regional.

And for all the people saying "It's spelt 'at'"...

How do you pronounce swat?

Thank you for posting this distinction.

The English alphabet is incredibly simple, which makes words constructed with it difficult. We do not use diacritics on our letters (save for certain words of different ethno-linguistic origin) so there is no way to tell, at a glance, how a word is pronounced. This is especially true in the case of vowels.

"Sugar" for example is pronounced with a "sh-" sound at the beginning of the word, but it's not indicated as such in the text. Moreover, most of the time, the "u" is pronounced as a short vowel ("uh" instead of "ooh"), and we barely even acknowledge the "a" near the end of the word. It just kind of ends "-gr" not "-gar" or "-gahr". Without any background in the language, sugar would probably be pronounced "soogaar", which is close, but the vowels are too long and the beginning consonant is pronounced incorrectly.

Yeah, I'm a twat.

 

[Brandon237]

Twat, hat, cat.

To be really insulting it must have that 'ah; sound.

 

[funguy2121]

English: rhymes with bat.
American: rhymes with spot.

 

[tahrey]

It's more like saying "twaht"

This may be a dialect thing, but how is that massively different from pronouncing it phonetically just with a slightly longer, breathier "a"?

ah =/= o ... at least as far as I'm aware...

 

[king_katchit]

SNIP

Bravo!

OT: I think generally in the UK it is pronounced with a 'hat' sound, And if you don't like it, we invented the rules, which makes us the umpires!

Game, set and match good sirs!

*Puts on bowler hat*

 

[Spacewolf]

dont think ive ever heard it said as anything other than tw-at, where is it pronounced as tw-ot?

 

[ace_of_something]

I never say it. It's one of those words that makes me feel kind like a goof saying it.
If I DID say it... it would rhyme with hat.

 

[KrubixCube]

I say it somewhere in between the two I think more towards "hat" though. Well done for making me say "twat" about five times out loud though.

 

[Folksoul]

I tend to flip-flop without really meaning to.

 

[GoGrapefruit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMj7mfla-TA

This should help

Classic

 

[steampunk42]

Tw-"at"

 

[Seabear]

How do I say twat? Frequently, and with venom. Also, to rhyme with hat. It's a very English curse.

QFT.

Immensely satisfying word, whether for stubbing your toe in the dark, calling your dear friend a "daft twat" in the nicest possible way, or, with great venom. It's the swiss army curse!

Also, for media use of the "twot" use, which is just... wrong. Blink 182 "Family Reunion".

 

[Jinnwarior]

i say it as [twɑt], not [twæt], but i know many people use the latter.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Pronounce it T.w.a.t. Each letter is special in its own way when I insult certain idiots.

 

[rokkolpo]

I'm sure Monthy Python covered this.
Can anyone verify this?

OT: It rhymes with both, depending on accent.

But it's phonetically, so A.(hat)