Via War and Peas
One time I used the word “twat” around my girlfriend and she said “you’re pronouncing that wrong - it’s pronounced twah.” WTF? Turns out she thought when people used the word twat they were actually trying to use the French word toit. Why she thought people were trying to call other people roofs, I have no idea.
Blow her mind again by teaching her that despite the word existing and having the same meaning in both the US and the UK, in the former it rhymes with cot, but in the latter, cat.
Never heard anyone from the US say twot and and not tw@
Maybe because of the GTAIV Internet cafe lol
Interesting. I know of at least one crude joke that relies on the pronunciation rhyming with cot - I read it in text form and was unable to make any sense of it.
Unrelatedly, I’ve been watching a lot of Steamed Hams videos lately, so now I’m thinking things like “Not in Utica, no. It’s an Albany expression”.
Clearly there must be some places that use the cot pronunciation. Maybe even a few over here in the UK. Similarly though, I’m not aware of any.
Or maybe it fell out of use in the US and the UK pronunciation has gained traction over there among a younger generation. Wouldn’t be the first time that happened, one way or the other across the Atlantic.
