I’ve heard some pronounce it like “wash”, and some pronounce it like “warsh”. I myself pronounce it like “warsh”. I’m just curious as to how many people pronounce it as “warsh” and if there is any reason the R slips into that specific word. However, I personally have noticed it more the further south I’ve gone.
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Wah-sh.
Wai-ish.
I just say wash, no r. How do you pronounce words like water? I know some people say it more like “warter” too
Warsh is like British or Aussie
We say wahhsh.
Wash rhymes with gosh and slosh and mosh and posh.
Like posh
“Wash” with an open “a” sound.
I’ve heard “warsh” with both Southern and Midwestern accents, can’t tell you why but it’s a thing.
I grew up in Chicago. People who pick up the accent say “warsh”. I never did.
Sometimes warsh, usually wash
Warsh.
There is no R in the word wash. It is wash.
My grandmother from Ohio said warsh and wrench your clothes.
Warsh is a very West Virginia thing iirc. My grandma was from near there and said it like that 🙂
My great aunt who was from Washington state used to say “warsh your teeth” which I always found really odd. I’ve never met anyone else who says warsh
Most often “wash” but sometimes the Baltimore accent slips out and it comes out “warsh”.
I say it like wosh, no r
Warsh sounds like New Orleans accent too.
I grew up in the Midwest (northern Illinois) and my parents are from Washington DC/Virginia. I speak with approximately a neutral American accent, like the people on national TV.
I always say Washington “wash-” like “gosh” or “posh” but my parents and grandparents say/said “waursh” sort of like “marsh” but they also do that for the word “wash” as well so I don’t think it’s a matter of how George pronounced his last name. I figure it’s how whatever accent is in the VA-MD region shows up.
They also pronouce “idea” like “Eye-deer” while I say “eye-Dee-ah”.
Rhymes with gosh, I’ve heard “warsh” but only from folks who probably lahk yelled dawgs and feather pillers. Lot of them bowl mudbugs and shrimps.
I say it without the R, I’ve known people to say it both ways. I feel like it’s a south-east thing, or maybe just more rural type? But I’m from north texas so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used to say warsh but time back East worked it out if me. I was wash (rhymes with posh).
I pronounce it like “wash.” My maternal grandma, who spent her entire childhood in West Virginia but spent the majority of her life overall in California, pronounced it “warsh.”
No R unless you’re 80+ years old
Rhymes with mash
Wash, rhymes with slosh and gosh, but my third grade teacher pronounced it “warsh.” Even Washington was “Warshington.” I never mentioned it to her but I thought it was strange and funny as hell.
No R sound. My mother grew up in South Dakota and she does though.
My father is from “the state of Warshington,” but oddly, he never pronounces the verb or noun associated with cleaning things as “warsh.”
Lmao my mom INSISTS that my dad used to say warsh when they first got together and he’s always denied it lmao. We all say wash though and we’re from East Texas 🤷🏻♀️
This fully depends on how I’m using the word. I load a dishwasher but warsh the dishes.
“Wahh-sh” here. From around the West of the US. I’ve heard Warsh and Wash with the a sounding like the a in cash. The latter happened during my time living in Arkansas/the South. Warsh seemed to come more from people from the North/East.
Team wash here.
Wosh
New England raised. I’ve been known to say “warsh” but I don’t know where I picked it up. My dad is from southern Pennsylvania, maybe I got it from him. I do pronounce a lot of words in the Downeast Maine/Bostonian accent. Ie: I parhk the cah in the yahd. And if I’m not thinking about it won’t becomes wron’t (that one drives my girlfriend nuts) and water becomes wadah which may be more New York than New England.
One last one, having grown up Immersed in the Downeast dialect I pronounce Wicked “wichid awesome”