Draught Pronunciation

[barry1010]

How do you pronounce it? To rhyme with raft or laugh-t?

Is there a regional difference ?

[wolf63]

Draft - well it is in central Scotland

[elliemay1]

for me, those 3 all rhyme!

[JJ109]

Draught and laugh t both rhyme with raft

[Lie-in King]

Either - your "raft" & "laugh-t" have the same sound to me.

[barry1010]

I say draft as in drafted in to the army and draught under the door and beer.

[bhg481]

Some people think "Laugh" is pronounced laaaf ie, a long A as in bath and baath.

Brought up in the north I'm a laff and draft person.

[Lie-in King]

Draft & draught are homophones for me.

It might be in t'North that you'd hear the "raf" or "raugh" to rhyme with "raf(fle)".

[Peter Pedant]

oh I thought this would be ch ( in lock) became 'c' and then a glottal stop ( the chancellor uses them a lo') - -  ⟨ʔ⟩ - - - and then smoo ( th 

but it isnt - it is a more interesting question of whether a sound  Bath short a - baff

and baaaaaaaath - long a  - - - can distinguish words like draft and draught which would otherwise be allophones

 

[gingejbee]

Funny how it's barth (bath) and farst (fast)...but not cart (cat) and marp (map). And don't ask a South-easterner about Elastoplast!

[naomi24]

Drarft.  Like Barthed - meaning having taken a Barth.    😂

[douglas9401]

Getting silly now.

[naomi24]

Elastoplarst .... from a South Easterner.

[gingejbee]

^so why is the first "a" short and the second one long?

[naomi24]

Parss.

[ToraToraTora]

it's to do with the invisible R. Oop north all those words rhyme with Math.

In correct pronounciation they all have an invisible "R".

barth parth etc.Raft, Laugh and draught rhyme with them.

[douglas9401]

You need an invisible 'o' in pronounciation.

[ToraToraTora]

That's a silent o dougie 😁

[mushroom25]

// Like Barthed //

according to a friend in Leeds, people from Barth, drink from Glarses, and sit on the Grarse, on their backsides.....

[douglas9401]

Silent as in err'r?

[Peter Pedant]

invisible r gives on google intrusive r

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R#:

and it isnt -  intrusive r is linking Africa rrr and Australia ( no  r - should  be glottal stop see above)

whereas  Westminister rrrran Hampstead is correct as there is an r to be linked

Intrusive r is droring room instead of drawing room