Sloth

[barry1010]

How do you say it?  To rhyme with cloth or both? 

[Peter Pedant]

I remember 50 y ago people saying clawth - men of the clawth particularly, and sloth never rhymed with that

 

[davebro3]

and what about EA?

leaf, sheaf, wheat, peat, meat, neat, etc. BUT DEAF !!!!

I think we should be told...

[bhg481]

I remember old Lancastrians pronouncing deaf like sheaf etc when I was a boy in the 50s.

[davebro3]

yes - we did!

[bhg481]

We also pronounced room, book, look and cook to rhyme with broom and didn't come across them rhyming with muck until I came south. How do southerners pronounce boom?