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Please help with your input on discussion about pronunciation.
What say you: Bew - cannan or Buck-annan?
Much appreciated! Also helpful if you could cite your origin, thanks
Both are correct. I know some Buchanans - some pronounce it one way, some the other.
Byoo-kah-nin Street. Any other way is wrong. People will look at you stupid if you say Buck-annan. You'll be, rightly, classed as a chookter.
edit: changed it to properly reflect the local lingo! 🙂
The former. Glasgow.
As above, former is correct.
Now, chair-ing cross or charring cross?
Byoo-kah-nin Street
Yep +1
Now, chair-ing cross or charring cross?
The latter.
Char-ring cross
As a family name I think it can be either but it's definitely Bew-cannon Street. (just like my family name has 2 pronounciations but only one is right for my part of the family)
Origin: Embra
It's Chair-ing cross, because that's where the chairing of witches took place (where they'd be tied to a chair on the end of a pole and dunked under the water to see if they'd drown)
It's bew-cannin st and char-ring cross in Glasgow.
charn crow-sss.
Bewcannon street. Stirling.
Don't forget to go via Milngavie on the way (to test your newly found pronounciation skills)
Or Strachan near Banchory
Or Kirkcaldy
Or Kirkudbright
Ardnamurchan?
Strathaven.
It should be obvious its not.
I did get caught out with the Strachan one whilst working up that way once Straaaaan I got abruptly told. I thought just end up in the Neuk and as for Kilconquhar
Bew-cannon, and Chairing
Bew-cannon from a Cumbrian too.
On the same subject there's a small village nearby called Torpenhow, but it's pronounced Tr-pen-ah.
Hawick in Scotland catches a few out too.
Okay, is it Argyle or arGyle Street?
According to my Dad, it was Buckannan for centuries! Until Jack Buchannan became a big star in Hollywood in the thirties. The US pronounciation was bookannan and this then spread as the authoritative and sophisticated way to say it. Although Glasgow and sophistication don't often go together!
my personal favourite , saucyhall street
Hawick in Scotland catches a few out too.
My mother in law and I were trying to correct my wife when she insisted it was How-ick and looked a nice place to visit, we were a bit embarrassed when it turned out she was talking about Howick in Northumberland where we were on holiday.
I've lived in Kirkcudbright and now live in Hawick.
Whenever you're on the phone and they ask for a postcode to read back your address i shudder, especially as my current address has lockieshedge in it closely followed by something very similar but with a subtle difference.
Dalziel. 🙂
Milngavie and Kilcadzow to also upset outlanders, and Strathaven of course
Chairing Cross? Don't think I've ever heard it pronounced like that
Another Aberdeenshire one.
Garioch
I live in Strathaven, and I'm now well used to saying: "its spelled 'STRATH-AVEN', but pronounced 'STRAVEN'", for those times when call centres get confused.
Strav' is excellent btw 🙂
Enlighten me I'm an East coaster but wtf is Kilcadzow shortened to
That is unless you are saying up Sukky and doon Bukky 😉
Tyndrum?
scotroutes - Member
Tyndrum?
I still vary between "tyne" and "tin"- which is it?
[quote=codybrennan ]
scotroutes - Member
Tyndrum?
I still vary between "tyne" and "tin"- which is it?
[i]Tigh an droma[/i], so "tyne" is correct-ish.
Tighnabruaich?
Bruichladdich?
Let's stick in Freuchie,Leuchars, Friockheim or even Alyth easy if you live near them
Walked into a pub on a recent Scottish trip, man sitting at the bar clocked me as obvious tourist and pointed to a pump handle: "that one's good".
Seemed a bit disappointed when I confidently ordered the An Teallach Ale by name 🙂 He was right, it was good though...
Kirkcaldy - Kir-kaw-day.
Strathaven - Stray-vin
Milngavie - mul-guy
Kilcadzow - No idea tbh
Tyndrum - I'd say tin-drum, the train says tyne though
Dalziel - Dee-el
Tighnabruaich tin-a-brew-ick.
Culzean - Kuh-lane
Few I'm not sure about, I'm coming from a glasgow soo side/ ruggie perspective.
Kirroughtree is another good yin. I got told the locals pronouce is Kirrock-tray, or something like that.
[quote=gobuchul ]Bruichladdich?
there's more...
thecaptain - Member
Seemed a bit disappointed when I confidently ordered the An Teallach Ale by name He was right, it was good though...
Personally I'd not really have much of a clue how to pronounce gaelic names. How do you say an teallach? an tal-lak?
I think uisge beatha = ooshka va. which i'm guessing is where the word whisky comes from, a bastardisation of ooshka?
[quote=seosamh77 ]Personally I'd not really have much of a clue how to pronounce gaelic names. Oh teh ironing!
An challach is close enough 🙂
Avoch
Alves
scotroutes - Member
Oh teh ironing!
It's been a long long time since Gaelic was the mother toungue of scotland particularly in central scotland. I'm all for the promotion of gaelic, but it's a bit of a false construction to claim it as the tounge of all scotland imo, scotlands a bit of a mishmash in that respect.. All the dual signs and that are nice, but they're really just there for tourist purposes, they obviously have more relevance the more north and west you go, I'm not denying that..
Ulster Gaeilge would be more relevant to me personally than Scottish Gaidhlig (Though they are pretty much sister dialects I think, I know my granny could understand scots gaelic easily enough.).
Kilncadzow = kill-cay-gay
It''s quite near Ravenstruther (or Renstrie )
Anstruther
Ainster to the locals.
Let's stick in Lergy while we are on a roll, Alexander Selkirk statue gives it away
Ones like Strathaven annoy me. If you want your place name to be pronounced Straven, why did you stick "tha" in the middle? Either fix the spelling, pronounce it Strathaven, or **** off.
Same goes for essentially all of wales.
Have we left out 'dry-men'
... I believe it's north of millin gavie?