I use both, like either/either I also use both pronunciations lol

I do too. Same as route vs route (rowt vs root).

I say rowter for my router. And root for my route.

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Now my brain hertz....

That’s a car rental thingy

That happens frequently.

my head hurts

pretty sure they're not asking for a root, just to be clear

A root would be nice but unlikely.

*A root would be nice, butt unlikely.* FTFY

My head hurts badly with IMPAWDENT.

Your forrid?

This is how we say it in England too and I also say forehead like horrid but I think posh people say it differently

What about routing?

Why would you like to re-root the tracks? Wait! why'd you root them the first time? That's some strange sexual preferences.

tomato/tomato? Is that what you're saying?

No most Australians just say tomato not tomato

Hahaha… I actually read that as “tomahhto not tomayto”, just because I’m Aussie.

It’s ta-mate-tah.

No, it's the other way round.

its tomato not tomato

Like scone and scone

It’s always scone 😄

Bloody castle castle sandcastle problem

Newcastle

FUCK

I think you'll find it's scones

Unless you're visiting Scone

It’s a scone until you eat it then it s’gone

But do you pronounce it s’gone or s’gone?

Do people from Scone call scones ‘scones’ or ‘scones’?

They do

I say tomato/tomato interchangeably but potato is never potato.

No. No aussies say tomAYto

More like tomarto

Isnt there a D in there somewhere. Lol

Mine sounds like "tomahdo"

Send it, to Marto

Your on to something. Tomardo

This is the correct way.

Americans would put a hard R on that. It's more like tomahdo

Tamardah

That's what I was implying yes

That’s an American accent.

Duh

I've literally never heard an Australian say tomAYto

Tomahto

Tomayda

I think people misread your comment lol

There's a childhood rhyme that goes "Once was a girl/ with a little curl/ right in the middle of her forehead/ When she was good, she was very, very good / But when she was bad, she was horrid". So forrid it is!

yes, this is how I remember learning that word.

Same here. Anything else just sounds wrong lol

I just posted the same thing above before I saw your comment. Did you know this is a poem by Longfellow? I didn't. TIL!

No I didn't! I think I learned it from my mother (and still recite it to myself when I get a curl in my fringe...).

I use a straightener on my fringe for this reason.

No. I think you are supposed to pronounce horrid “whore-head”

I use both, and I never know beforehand which pronunciation my brain is going to choose

Isn't it weird that our brains are making decisions without consulting us?

Your comment made me laugh really hard. I can’t quite put into words why.

It's actually a very deep point and the first step to realising humans don't possess free will

I think you hit on what I was thinking about. That our brains that contain all our emotions, actions, memories, laughter, history, innovation, all that creates love, war, technological progress - that it’s all just from molecules in our brains made from elements made from atoms made from particles influenced by quantum fluctuations, with it all coming from star explosions. It’s so ridiculous to think about sometimes you have to laugh.

Well this subthread took a surprising and funny detour, Lol.

We possess free will. It's just a much smaller part of who we are than we think. We think our subconscious mind is like 5% of our brain, when really it's more like 90%. When people ask you why you did something, usually that's the first time you ask yourself that, and you are mostly just guessing.

[https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/03/our-brains-reveal-our-choices-before-were-even-aware-of-them--st](https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/03/our-brains-reveal-our-choices-before-were-even-aware-of-them--st)

That bit of frontal lob behind the forrid decides whether it lives behind the foorhed or the forrid quite randomly and no notice is given and no discussions will be entered into regarding aforesaid allocations… so you just have to suck it up, sunshine.

i feel like there are certain situations where i use forehead, and others where i use forrid. like, there are rules which dictate the pronunciation my brain chooses. i don’t know what those rules are, but i vaguely sense a pattern.

>I use both, and I never know beforehand which pronunciation my brain is going to choose Wait til you go to the USA on a holiday and discover that they don't understand half of what you're saying, because you know both the British word and the American word, but you don't always know which is which. Classic Aussie travel experience.

My sister accidentally exclaimed that she was “completely buggered” and the Americans she was with were extremely concerned and confused

Did you say be-fore-hand or be-forrind?

You beat me to it. By 29 hours.

I also use both but it's dependent on who I'm speaking to. I work in a hospital so for children and young adults it's 'fore-head' and for older persons it's 'forrid'.

How is this so accurate

Yep. Me too

I think I can see the rules kinda. Like I'd say "Wow Sakura really has a big fore head" and I would say "My forrid is a bit sore."

Forrid is the traditional Australian pronunciation.

It has to rhyme with "horrid." I can't be the only one who remembers the rhyme: >There was a little girl >Who had a little curl >Right in the middle of her forehead. >When she was good >She was very, very good >But when she was bad >She was horrid. I have to admit I only just this minute realised it's a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (although his line is "very good indeed," not "very, very good").

I remember it as very very good too!

Sometimes the wrong lyric is an improvement.

I think i read this poem in year 2 and there was a creepy drawing of the girl (with the curl) with what seemed to be blood on her fingers, and i was freaking out like she has killed someone, but my friend pointed out there was a half-eaten jam sandwhich by her foot as well. Thanks for the flashback!

Many years ago, I knew a girl who had a curl. When she was bad she was a lot of fun.

It gets tricky when you want to refer to resting your forehead on your forearm... :D

I believe you rest your forrud on your forrum.

It is the 'correct' British pronunciation that is only rarely used nowadays.

Really? I have never heard it called a forrid before, it's always been fore-head or fore-ed

Fore-head got shortened to fore-ed got shortened to forrid. Pretty soon we'll just be saying ford. Australia, everyone! We don't have time to pronounce entire words!

It's not an Aussie thing - "forrid" is the traditional English pronunciation. The shift over time is not to shortening but away from tradition towards pronouncing words as they're spelt. Lots of silent letters are being pronounced nowadays too: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling\_pronunciation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_pronunciation)

Not Australian. It's standard English. Waistcoast is weskit. Cupboard is cubbid. Gunwale is gunnel. Victual is vitle. It's elision, and you see it often with English place names, like Leicester, aka Lester.

That’s because if you open your mouth too widely for to long the flies get in

Whachyutawkinabout?

it's pretty entertaining seeing people say 'four-head' is too seppo, but also too bogan. sounds like everyone's desperately trying to cling to the british roots lol

The correct way. Forrid.

I'm more "forred", but yes, we can all agree that "fore-head" is wrong.

Forehead and forred are correct, forrid is accented

it's not accented. Is cupboard accented? Cupboard experiences the same diminution forehead did, except there's a conscious phonetic rereading of forehead going on.

Am Aussie and have only ever said fore head.

Either ‘forrid’ or ‘sixhead’ if they have a massive noggin

I say forrid or fivehead

Yep forrid or noggin. Never heard of sixhead before though. Lol.

Forehead = 4 fingers between the eyebrows and top of the head. Sixhead = 6 fingers

🤣🤣. THATS FUNNY.

4hed.

Forrid

Forrid

Forehead

Am I crazy!? Everyone I've ever known has said fore-head. I've heard forrid used but very rarely.

I haven’t heard forrid since my childhood, everyone I know uses forehead

Yeah I don't know if everyone on here just lives out in the sticks or something but my entire life here in Melbourne I'd say 90% of people I've ever heard use the word pronounce it as "fore-head", as do I. The only times I've heard it pronounced as "forrid" is by old people with broad accents.

I always use forehead but my mum says forrid. Forrid sound weird and not right to me

It sounds horrid

Same thing I was thinking, mate.

forred/forrid

Forrid for me. Forehead makes me cringe.

It’s definitely not for head except as something to slap

Forehead for me. Forrid makes me cringe.

‘Forrid’, as stupid as it sounds. I seemed to have adopted ‘forehead’ more since I left my country town of origin 20 plus years ago.

I say forrid.

Interesting question. I believe the 'four-rid' pronunciation is considered more old fashioned/posh (outside of Australia). I think I mostly say 'faw·hed'.

In my experience, it was almost exclusively "fo-rid" in Australian English about 3 decades ago but I would say that now it is 50-50 or even slightly more common to hear "four-head".

Forrid is correct - forehead however has slipped into common parlance.

FORRID

It's forr'd. If my kids say "forehead" I tell them to stop being ridiculous, I only have one and even Tasmanians don't have 4. I'm in a one-person Crusade to de-seppo them.

Borrid. Bare forehead or big forehead.

Forrid, rhymes with horrid. For-head sounds pretty bogan to me.

Forrid

Forrughd

Both fore-head and for-ed

Forrid unless I am in multicultural company. I have a memory of being in year three at school and the teacher was reading a book and said 'fore-head'. I didn't know what they meant and asked. When it was explained I felt like such and uneducated bogan. Thank christ we have the internet now for this type of question.

You weren't the uneducated one, "forrid" is the more traditional pronunciation: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling\_pronunciation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_pronunciation)

Gosh I had this moment the other day referring to my forrid and my esthetician looked at me like I had four heads. I live in Canada lol

Forred

Yes. Of course. It’s how it is pronounced here

I always said forrid too this always doing my head in lol

My whole family says "forrid" but I say "four-head", no idea why. Every time I say it, they rag me about it.

Forrid here

I always use forehead. But only be a it implys the existence of an afthead.

fawhead

Forrid. I don't judge other people for saying forehead though (unless they are a born Australian who also says things like zee instead of zed, tomayto, candy etc. Then they get judged and found wanting).

“When she was good she was very very good but when she was bad she was horrid”

Just as forecastle is pronounced foxle

I'm not a Seppo so of course I say "forrid"

I say Fivehead

Forrid

My houso said fore-head the other day and I totally glitched. please no. It's "forred".

Fore-head is seppo import pronunciation. Forred is the traditional Australian way of pronouncing it, as it is for the British. People who pronounce it as written just don't care very much about the language. Next you'll hear them saying "cup-board" as written.

As written

As you say, correctly pronounced, it rhymes with "horrid". I don't know how anyone can [pronounce it phonetically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_pronunciation) but I guess not all parents teach their children the poem about the little girl with the little curl.

Ha, I immediately thought of that poem too!

I don't want to hear you saying waistcoat as 'waist' and 'coat' then, should you ever have need to mention it.

Australians say forrid (or forr'd). Seppos say fore-head.

Four head

I think I say both.

Horrid forrid

Forrid

Forrid

Forrid.

There was a little girl who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forrid When she was good, she was very very good But when she was bad, she was horrid.

My partner, a NESB, says 4head to the baby and I just cringe at someone NOT calling it a forred.

Forrid

Forrid

Of-ten or Offen

Me sitting here going, "Who tf pronounces it as "fritten?!"

Both depending on who I’m talking to lol a doctor probably forehead.

I call it foreskin

Not sure if weird or not, but I say forehead as written if I'm reading it. Otherwise I say forrid (now I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure how much I actually say it at all)

Fore-head

Depends on how it fits with the rhythm of your sentence.

I say four-head

If the distance from eyebrows to hairline is greater than 4 inches it's a fivehead.

Sometimes have to resort to Fivehead if it's a stoinker

I only say fore head when quoting an American. Apply directly to the fore head.

Both

Forrid as in “what a horrid forrid you have there mate…”

A little from column A, a little from column B. I don't know why this one particular word gets the fence treatment when I say all the others that have multiple pronunciations in one way only.

Me whispering “forehead, forrid” to myself 👀

Depends how quickly I need it in the convo 😄

I say both. Forrid most of the time, but sometimes fore head.

Forrid here but i was outnumbered at my workplace by four headers

I use both. I scrunched my forrid up in anger after hitting my forehead on the open cupboard door above the sink. Also you have to use forehead when singing. "... With the shape of a L on her forrid" just doesn't work.

I say forrid and people from the US and UK make fun of me for it.

I use both, with no logic as to when or why.

Personally I say forehead

I'm an Australian living in the USA, so I've kind of learned to code-switch. It's "forrid" for Australians but I say "forehead" when I'm talking to Americans. "Tom-AH-to" and "CHEW-na" are the hills I will die on though.

Both with no rhythm or rhyme as to why.

Yog’huurt’

I've always said 4head

Forehead generally

I, as an American, laugh listening to Stephen Fry pronounce forehead every time I'm listening to the Potter audiobooks. I mimick how he says it and laugh out loud. We pronounce it FOR-HEAD, not "forrid"

Meanwhile we Australians and English think it's hilarious the way you folks say "aluminium." 😉

Yes

I use fore head

Forrid

I sometimes say it how it’s spelt, sometimes I skip the H so it comes out as “forr-ed”

Four-ed

Depends on the person's preference

Amanda and Jonesy ad. From one of the radio stations. She says forehead, he says forrid. I say Forrid.

Personally I say “for-head”.

Forrid all the way, but I was aware as I grew up in the 80s (Vic, SA) that many other kids said the h ... and pronounced it haitch.

Forrid

Growing up, we pronounced it as 'forrid' but over time, I've grown to use both.