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schuette · Post by **schuette** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:34 am

this is really just for the Americans.....I've just watched the highlights of the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green......my question is how would you lot say Glasgow....I've heard a few Americans say it and not one of them has pronounced it right yet...

D'Anconia · Post by **D'Anconia** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:46 am

Glass-go

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:27 pm

I hear it said thusly:

glass-go

glass-cow (rhymes with ow)

glass-co

glass gow (rhymes with ow)

*doesn't know the right way*

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:25 pm

D'Anconia was right......well it's not glass-go....more like glaz-go

H3 might disagree

funky cm · Post by **funky cm** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:27 am

what about "Ed-in-burg"

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:35 am

I've been saying the word all night...Glasgow that is....and it's not so much Glaz-go and Glas-go
glass-go is too hissy...

Edinburgh...I pronounce Edin-burru....as in rhyming with thorough

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:09 pm

I like the way you lot speak.

rushlight · Post by **rushlight** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:17 pm

I pronounce it as Glaz-go.

A few names I learned when I was in wales are:

Sillbury - Sill-bree

Avebury- Ave-bree

schedule- shed-jewel

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:54 pm

We have some names people don't know the right way to pronounce here too, like Sequim (S-kwim), Seiku (See-que) and Puyallup (Pew-al-up) to name a few.

funky cm · Post by **funky cm** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:14 pm

I live in Sooke, occasionally called Suk

"Hi, you're in 'Suk'?"

(originally T'Souke)

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:19 am

we have a few places that is said nothing like they're spelt...for instance

Milngavie is pronounced Millguy

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:23 am

schuette wrote:this is really just for the Americans.....I've just watched the highlights of the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green......my question is how would you lot say Glasgow....I've heard a few Americans say it and not one of them has pronounced it right yet...

"glozz-go"

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:25 am

not glos-so....but glaz-go

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:46 am

hey t don't you live in Warshington

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:52 am

Ouch, he went there.

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