Do you say chaff or charff?

Charff
Barth
Grarss
Glarss
Gararge
Scon (not scone though)
Yep, I guess I am posh! I even say Darby (Derby) and me and my OH often have language 'battles'... but he also says 'Melk' instead of Milk - that I really can't understand!
 
chaff! I've never heard anyone say charrrff!

I'm from the south east, and now live in cornwall and still never heard it!
 
I had this very debate with my mother and sister last week!!

I say Chaff, which had the lady at the shop very confused!! But mother says it's charff or chop! There's no such thing as chaff!

I said, when there's an r in the word, I'll call it charff, to which my sister said "well then, how do you say barth?"

"Bath" :D :D :D
 
Chaff I suppose. Although we don't use it so I've never said it!

I say scone to rhyme with gone rather than cone...

However, I cannot fathom how you would say Chaff like Charff! I can say grarss, glarrss etc, but can't work out the ch and long vowel sound! :o
 
Hee hee this is a funny thread! It all depends on what you class as "correct" English - is the upper class pronunciation of everything always the one that should be considered "correct"....?? But that's a whole other debate!

If we take the upper class pronunciation as the "correct" one (rather than doing it from a north/south divide sort of view) which bears in mind that one says "smart" and never "posh" - "posh" is what the other half say when they mean "smart" dontchaknow...

The "upper class" pronunciation or usage of the following words are:-

Barth

Glarrs

Parth etc etc

Scon (scones is actually originally a northern pronunciation/affectation of the word)

Troff

But

Chaff not Charff (chaff originally means the word for the layers surrounding a corn seed, the stuff left over after you flayed the corn and is even sometimes pronounced caff not chaff....!)

Also worth noting it's loo never toilet but lavatory is fine. :D :D :D

Watching the English by Kate Fox is an excellent and very funny book that goes into much of this from an anthropological point of view!!! Though I don't think she addresses chaff or charrff!! :D
 
Hmmm ive never heard of Charff :p i say Chaff
Theres also "cold", "shoulder" and other similar words were you roll the "o" so its like cooold!! Im probably not making sense at all :D
 
Now see when I lived in W. Sussex I called it charff. Now I've been mingling with the Bishops Waltham crew I say chaff!

Its still barrrth for me though, no doubt I'll be saying bath soon.
 
I am from Sussex and I have always said Chaff.....but i say barth, parth etc....wierd i am going to go and stand in my local feed merchant and see what every one else calls it! Maybe I'm the odd one out!!
 
I'm from South Wales but I'm told I don't have a particularly strong accent. It's chaff and troff for me (tro? Seriously?) but Barth unless I'm speaking Welsh then it's bath ;). Most Welsh speakers I know say Barth in English, maybe to differentiate? Castle, path, grarss and glarss. There's not much pattern here really is there:confused:. I'd never heard of charff until I was talking to a feed company rep the other day. When I told my friends they had never heard it either.
 
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