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[nny]

[Poll #1631450]

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[exorcizo-te.livejournal.com]

sl-ah-th

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hee, yay you!

[exorcizo-te.livejournal.com]

inoright? Crazy Americans! ;)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I... don't know which is which, Nny.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Sloth to rhyme with goth versus slooooooowth. :)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether I'm referring to the sin or the animal.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Which is which?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

"sloh-th" = sin
"slow-th" = animal

[gramarye1971]

The first is the animal, the second is the deadly sin.

(Or at least that's how I'd probably say it if I weren't thinking so hard about pronunciation.)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I only ever refer to the animal. :D IT IS NOT A SIN, IT IS A WAY OF LIFE! \o/

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Sloth to rhyme with rogue.

And that goes for the sin as well as the mammal.

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I use the first one for the sin, second for the cute, sleepy animal.

[icedmaple.livejournal.com]

I'm from Staines; it's a SLOFF.

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

I use the rhymes-with-goth pronunciation for the animal and the sin way of life, though I don't know what's considered technically correct. If it's a particularly cute sloth, it's a sluff.

[genarti]

I too use the rhymes-with-goth kind for both animal and sin. I don't know if that's officially correct or not, but it's what I grew up hearing.

Of course, as an American with a mostly-Midwesternish accent, sl-ah-th sounds acceptable too... *laughing* I say it with an o, though.

Forgot to use my sloth icon! For shame, self.</small.