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How do you pronounce Dartmouth?
iwantfood
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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.
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...)