Timeline for how to pronounce words 'baths' in actual conversation?
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| Sep 26, 2016 at 3:42 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | @snailplane +1 Very well reasoned and a worthwhile caution generally to those who, like me, are sometimes too hasty in closing. "That information belongs in an answer, not in a close reason" is, as we might have said in USENET, ".sig material." | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 5:07 | answer | added | sumelic | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:39 | history | reopened |
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:39 | comment | added | user230 | I am going to reopen this question. Dictionaries generally present what is called a careful pronunciation, not necessarily taking into account fast speech rules, consonant cluster reduction, assimilation, and so on. It is clear to me from the title that the OP wants to know about the actual pronunciation, not the careful pronunciation we use in theory. They might be the same in this particular case, but that information belongs in an answer, not in a close reason. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:32 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 22:07 | history | closed |
Alan Carmack Glorfindel♦ Nathan Tuggy user3169 Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 |
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 21:49 | answer | added | Alan Carmack | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | user3169 | No doubt the pronunciation varies from place to place. Rather than trying to figure out which is "correct", I would focus on the expected environment where you will be using English. If non native English, it probably doesn't matter because as long as it is close it will be understood in context. If native English, just pronounce it the way they do. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | Henry Wang | @P.E.Dant I think there are only two ways to pronounce the word baths | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 11:42 | comment | added | Atai Voltaire | You may want to look at youglish site. They provide 225 results for the words baths: youglish.com/search/baths | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:51 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | @P.E.Dant (and everyone), I don't think her idea that we pronounce months with a schwa (i.e., /mənθs/ or /məns/, which is transcribed as "muhnths" and "muhns" in the video) is very realistic. (I can't decide whether her "s" in "muhns" is an /s/ or a /z/, but I think it's more like an /s/.) If it were really a schwa, month won't rhyme with once like in the children's song Max mentioned. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | In nearly 70 years as a North American native English speaker, and having travelled throughout the world, I have never heard baths pronounced without the th sound, but @HenryWang should bear in mind that anyone (in the free world) can create and publish a video that demonstrates any pronunciation they choose. I could create and publish a video demonstrating that the word is pronounced Bartz, and would be no one to stop me. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:28 | comment | added | Em. | Interesting. Everyone should understand you if you use the "th" in months, but I never really noticed what the lady said in the video. I guess people do say "muhns". Here's a children's song I found on months. He says "muhns". This might be similar for "baths". | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:16 | comment | added | Henry Wang | @P.E.Dant /bæθs/ is a very proper pronunciation for this word, but are there any people pronounce it as /bæts/ in real speech? | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:12 | comment | added | Henry Wang | @Max I already add a link for months | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 10:10 | history | edited | Henry Wang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 9:15 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | \ˈbathz, ˈbaths, ˈbäthz, ˈbäths\ (Merriam-Webster) | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 8:34 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 8:14 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | In NAmE, it's bæθs. In BrE, it's bɑːðz . | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 8:06 | comment | added | Em. | You should provide a link to these videos, or at least one that makes this claim. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 8:03 | history | asked | Henry Wang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |