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# .
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 8:26, archived)
# hehehehehe
/steinbeck
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Sun 3 Oct 2004, 8:27, archived)
# but
wrath doesn't rhyme with path...
(I helped save b3ta! HexShaped remembers when this was all fields, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 10:47, archived)
# It does
as long as you say wrath and not wroth. Wroth is an adjective, wrath is a noun.
(tungazzio the occasionally present, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 10:57, archived)
# what if you say
wrarth?

not that i do or anything...
(I helped save b3ta! HexShaped remembers when this was all fields, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 11:03, archived)
# Then
you'd probably also say parth.
(tungazzio the occasionally present, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 11:09, archived)
# Well,
The 'roth' pronunciation is mainly a British thing. Neither's 'wrong'; language is this wonderful thing which evolves...Admittedly the 'roth' pronunciation is the one which is dying out slowly, but it's still perfectly correct for either form of the word wrath.
(insanityboy, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 15:06, archived)
# Dying out?
Bollocks!

The South English accent has a long and proud history dating back centuries, perhaps even millenia, and has many more before it.

I have never heard a Londoner pronounce wrath "RATH".

Admittedly, the BBC, Standard and 'Upper Class' English accents so admired by our Cousins across the pond has only been in use since Victorian times (according to this historian who gave a lecture at my school that is), and came about because of the Victorian gentry imitating Prince Albert's German accent. Admittedly the 'posh' (remember the pronunciation from earlier) accent probably has a lot to do with French, as well, as this was for much of particularly British, but more or less, European history, the language of the nobility.
(greendwarf, Tue 5 Oct 2004, 23:51, archived)
# surely path only rhymes with wrath if you live
up North ...

when it also rhymes with bath
(dr dolittle, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 20:39, archived)
# ha!
punnage most foul!
woo
(I helped save b3ta! sosumi, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 8:31, archived)
# Pfft
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 8:33, archived)
# Mmm, wrath...
Must be quite a bitter drop.

Huzzah!
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 8:36, archived)
# excellent!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 9:43, archived)
# Arf!
Subtle! :-D
(I helped save b3ta! splorp ®, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 10:40, archived)
# Hahaha
Nice
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 16:23, archived)
# Is that a cock ring?
(I helped save b3ta! enthusiastic amateur delurked at:, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 16:36, archived)
# .
That's exactly what I thought at first.
(Pooky, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 17:39, archived)
# Looks
Like one to me.
not that I own one

/coat
/hat
/cockring
(5700 is doing the CRX rally - Sponsor Me, Tue 5 Oct 2004, 16:53, archived)
# hahahahaha
just seen this on the front page and it made me guffaw :)

simple idea executed with perfection, i doff my hat.

(I helped save b3ta! spiny - things are looking up, Sun 3 Oct 2004, 20:19, archived)