You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. I think the writer meant to write wrath meaning anger or fury — not wraith. A wraith is a spirit or ghost. They left gifts for the gods to appease their wrath. They saw the floods as a sign of divine wrath. This is the second hotel to feel the wrath of the bombers.
This remark brought the judge's full wrath down on Sergeant Golding. What had she done to provoke his wrath? Questions about grammar and vocabulary? In AE, "wrath" rhymes both with "bath" and with "math" -- which is not difficult, as "bath" and "math" and "hath", and "lath", for that matter rhyme with each other. It is pronounced like this: Rath rhymes with bath and the "w" is silent Hope this helps! There is an older word, "wroth", that is pronounced to rhyme with "goth", but this is a word I'd expect in a Shakespearean production, not a conversation.
JamesM said:. Click to expand But does the word "wroth" even mean the same thing as "wrath"? Cristina Allende said:. Hmm, I guess my accent must be pretty peculiar then! For me the rhymes are a bit more restricted: bath, path, Plath, lath etc math, hath, bat, cat etc wrath, goth, got, dot etc ignore the mixture of th's and t's, my imagination with rhymes has deserted me!
So, all in all, I'm completely confused!! The US pronunciation is [rath], to rhyme with Kath. Thanks everyone for your help! Hi Lalettre, It seems you have got it figured now but just for the record It seems as though it may be another case of British English vs American English. Well, all speakers of AE will certainly not agree with this, but around here New York, that is , the vowel sounds would be the same in the following groups: 1 bath, path, hath, math, lath, wrath -- and also mass and cat.
Giorgio Spizzi Senior Member Italian. Hullo, Lalettre. Well, it does differ in the sense that — in Received Pronunciation at least, and apart from the different final consonant sounds — wrath has a short "o" vowel sound like the one in "not", "got", spot", etc. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Search within work. Related Content In this work Abbreviations Glossary.
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