Poll: How do you say twat?

[GiantRaven]

Building further on this; how would people instinctively pronounce 'wat'? I'm sure it wouldn't be the same as how the majority (myself included) pronounce 'twat'. Why the difference arising from merely adding a letter beforehand?

I fucking hate the English language sometimes.

 

[Anchupom]

I generally use other terms for "twat", as I don't like coarse, one-syllable exclamations of one's disapproval.
So I pronounce it "bell-end" most of the time.
But when I do speak it aloud, I prounce it like "hat".

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Actually that link shows BOTH as valid if you click on the pronounciation samples.

So you get Opps on your Opple Mockintosh? purleaze.

Or Ohlimuinum? Regional variation is one thing, but you can't just alter phonetics.

 

[fordneagles]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/twat

You'll notice there are *two* audio buttons for this, one for the British pronunciation and one for the American pronunciation, and it's actually the American version that rhymes with hat and the British with hot, which is contradictory to what everyone here seems to be saying (unless they got the combo of pic to audio wrong )

Yet the pronunciation here:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/twat

Sounds more like a hybrid of the two, like 'tart' but with a w, so 'twart'.

I say it like it rhymes with hat, saying it as though its spelling is 'twot' just feels weird to me.

 

[General_Tragg]

It's pronounced thwaite...

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

 

[Nerfherder17]

Technically it rhymes with hat, unless you're from NY or NJ

 

[Gladion]

I pronounce it 'asshole'. But I'm not a native speaker, so I might be wrong.

 

[Prof.Wood]

"It's pronounced Thwaite!!!"

Seriously though, it rhymes with hat. I think that "twot" is a different word entirely.

Well its spelled twat t.w.a.t TWAT!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

How can you pronounce it to rhyme with hot? I'm saying it in my head and it just doesn't work.
Rhymes with hat
You people are odd.

 

[Tonimata]

Two-at. Simple, really

 

[fordneagles]

It's pronounced thwaite...

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

Bit like that old show about Mrs 'Bouquet' (when the spelling was B-U-C-K-E-T)

Can't blame people trying to make a sophisticated name out of one that really isn't

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Two-at. Simple, really

But if you say that way normally it still rhymes with hat...

Maybe its just cos im from the north of england :<

 

[trollnystan]

Doesn't make it any easier for learners when so many of the letters and dipthongs are just straight up pronounced differently anyway, though.

Least obvious... Euro = Oi-ro. Really? And Auto = Ow-to of course.

Try Swedish pronunciation on then. Euro = Evro. Odysseus = Udyssevs.

OT: I rhyme it with hat. You know, like they say on British telly. Never heard it on American telly. Unless said by a British character and they've also rhymed it with hat.

 

[Tonimata]

Two-at. Simple, really

But if you say that way normally it still rhymes with hat...

Maybe its just cos im from the north of england :<

Never said that it doesn't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7-fVtT16k

Jus' cause I was watching it

 

[lucky_bob45]

both depending on the situation or what im describing.

 

[DJDarque]

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

twot?!?!?!?!?

Seriously guys, how do you spell it?

Yours sincerely, Another Enraged Southner

Swat is spelled with an "at" as well, yet it is pronounced how I pronounce twat.

Like a lot of people have said: it appears to be a regional thing.

 

[Devon Dent]

Be warned it is a ZP video, so it contains swearing, but at the 1:59 mark you can hear how I think it is supposed to sound.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/553-Skate-2