How do you pronounce Dartmouth?

Colleges & Universities Dartmouth College
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<p>DARTmith? DARTmowth? Dartmoth? Dartmeth?</p>

2

<p>Dartmyth</p>

<p>(10 characters)</p>

3

<p>Well I’ve always heard it pronounced “Dartmuth”</p>

4

<p>It’s “Dartmuth.”</p>

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<p>It really makes no difference. Saying it slowly makes the myth sound like muth. I have heard it pronounced both ways, but, then again, you guys would know more than I do.</p>

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<p>‘datmuth’ with a long ‘a’.</p>

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<p>DART-mith</p>

<p>+characters</p>

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<p>There’s almost no vowel between the m and the th.</p>

<p>So my approximation would be DART-mth.</p>

<p>the “uh” in “muth” or the “y” in “myth” sort of sound like a schwa sound.</p>

<p>…haha after I wrote that I checked Dictionary.com for the pronunciation guide and it IS a schwa. Yay.</p>

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<p>hahahaha…these conversations make me mad I’m not going to Dahhhtmuth…</p>

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<p>To make things more difficult, a person who goes to Dartmouth is a “Dartmothian,” pronounced dart-MOW-the-un.</p>

<p>That’s along the lines of the names used for residents of some of the English cities that end in -mouth (Plymouth, Exmouth: Plymothian, Exmothian) and generally similar to the transformation given to other schools’ names (Harvard, Princeton, Brown: Harvardian, Princetonian, Brunonian). </p>

<p>Those who go to Yale are usually called Yalies, though they have a latin-based term, Yalensian. (If that rule were followed elsewhere, Dartmothians would be Dartmuthensians…)</p>

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<p>REALLY!! :slight_smile: CRAP…I’ve been saying " DART MOUTH :0" out loud all along! i THOUGHT THAT SOUNDED ODD</p>

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<p>ya haha i was never stupid enough to pronounce it dartMOUTH in public (jk about being stupid lol)</p>