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How do you pronounce Dartmouth?

iwantfoodiwantfood Posts: 579. Member
edited July 2005 in Dartmouth College
DARTmith? DARTmowth? Dartmoth? Dartmeth?
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Replies to: How do you pronounce Dartmouth?

  • Devil May CryDevil May Cry Posts: 1,351Registered User Senior Member
    Dartmyth


    (10 characters)
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  • HamsterHamster Posts: 675Registered User Member
    Well I've always heard it pronounced "Dartmuth"
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  • iceman1iceman1 Posts: 95Registered User Junior Member
    It's "Dartmuth."
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  • Devil May CryDevil May Cry Posts: 1,351Registered User Senior Member
    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.
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  • prepster05prepster05 Posts: 416Registered User Member
    'datmuth' with a long 'a'.
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  • bluirinkabluirinka Posts: 2,056Registered User Senior Member
    DART-mith

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  • salsera927salsera927 Posts: 44Registered User Junior Member
    There's almost no vowel between the m and the th.

    So my approximation would be DART-mth.

    the "uh" in "muth" or the "y" in "myth" sort of sound like a schwa sound.

    ...haha after I wrote that I checked Dictionary.com for the pronunciation guide and it IS a schwa. Yay.
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  • kb54010kb54010 Posts: 1,133Registered User Senior Member
    hahahaha....these conversations make me mad I'm not going to Dahhhtmuth...
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  • DartmothianDartmothian Posts: 1Registered User New Member
    To make things more difficult, a person who goes to Dartmouth is a "Dartmothian," pronounced dart-MOW-the-un.

    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).

    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...)
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  • apfreakapfreak Posts: 1,098Registered User Senior Member
    REALLY!! :) CRAP...I've been saying " DART MOUTH :0" out loud all along! i THOUGHT THAT SOUNDED ODD
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  • iwantfoodiwantfood Posts: 579. Member
    ya haha i was never stupid enough to pronounce it dartMOUTH in public (jk about being stupid lol)
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