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A question

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:34 am
by schuette
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...

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:46 am
by D'Anconia
Glass-go

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:27 pm
by awip2062
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*

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:25 pm
by schuette
D'Anconia was right......well it's not glass-go....more like glaz-go

H3 might disagree :lol:

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:27 am
by funky cm
what about "Ed-in-burg"

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:35 am
by schuette
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

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:09 pm
by awip2062
I like the way you lot speak.

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:17 pm
by rushlight
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

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:54 pm
by awip2062
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.

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:14 pm
by funky cm
I live in Sooke, occasionally called Suk


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

(originally T'Souke)

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:19 am
by schuette
we have a few places that is said nothing like they're spelt...for instance

Milngavie is pronounced Millguy

Re: A question

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:23 am
by CygnusX1
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"

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:25 am
by schuette
not glos-so....but glaz-go :-D

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:46 am
by Soup4Rush
hey t don't you live in Warshington :-D

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:52 am
by Walkinghairball
Ouch, he went there.