Another brand everyone who comes into my shop gets wrong........Thule
Tip - it rhymes with a girls name not another word for xmas.
And ‘chutzpah’ as chutzpah
Wait, it isn’t?
the ‘c’ is silent
Actually, that rings a bell now you come to mention it. It's not quite silent is it, it's like the start of jalapeno?
The strangest one (and only used by pretentious journalists) is "quixotic". Given that it is derived from Don Quixote (kee-ho-tay), I always assumed that it would also be pronounced in the Spanish way. But no, it's actuallly "kwik-sotik". Odd.
Two more whiskey names often mispronounced are Caol Isla (even locals say it slightly differently) Cwool eela or cool eye la and Glenmorangie is glen morangie NOT glenmor angie.
Actually, that rings a bell now you come to mention it. It’s not quite silent is it, it’s like the start of jalapeno?
it’s Yiddish - so you don’t say the ‘c’ but if you put enough chutzpah into saying chutzpah then the c is easy to imagine. 🙂
it’s almost like you’re preparing your mouth to say the letter c - but then skipping over it and going straight to the h
Is morangie pronounced with a 'j' sound, or a hard 'g' sound?
NOT glenmor angie.
who hasn’t had Glenmore Angie though
Holburn.
I do know. But sometimes say it sounding the 'L' to avoid giving the impression I'm correcting anyone (on the basis who gives a shit anyway?)
Pilates - must always rhyme with pirates. As in pi rah tees of the carry bean.
Similarly Spud-U-Like - spud you lick kay - not much used these days but still.
Thoroughfare - why's it not throughfare?
as my extremely thick Lanarkshire accent consists almost entirely of glottal stops and profanity
Do you not come from a town called 'letmahairgrow'?
Anyway, 'Leffe' seems to be pronounced leff-ay in lots of places other than Belgium.
Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire is pronounced "Slowett" with "slow" rhyming with "cow".
Chop Gate in the NYM is pronounced "Chop Yat"
Rhymes with Macaroni
Ribald. Turns out my wife was right. It's wrong though.
Staithes on the coast north of Whitby is pronounced "steers". Albeit mainly by incomers who've read that's how you pronounce it. Plenty of locals say "stay ths). Possibly related is that it's bang on the boundary where a north yorkshire accent meets one that's distinctively north eastern.
Is morangie pronounced with a ‘j’ sound, or a hard ‘g’ sound?
MORAN-jie.
Caol Isla
Cal-EEL-ah.
A small village near by gets me- Oughterside, it's pronounced outer-side but I struggle to lose the g.
One that had me was another local village- Torpenhow. But that got me the other way, I knew how to pronounce "Tra-pen-ha" it but didn't know what it looked like written down so struggled to find it!
A friend asked me where Ha-wick was once too, wouldn't have it that it was Hoick.
Place name from ‘round here: Leominster
It’s “Lem-Ster” not Leo-Minster
At work I was casually taking the piss out of a local who was pronouncing Coleford as “CoFerd”, by saying “CoFerd” as much as possible.
Annoyed he replied “It’s not CoFerd, it’s Coferd!”
He still can’t hear the difference to this day.
Data is it day ta or da ta? Are you a posh Douglas if your Duggy or commoner if your a Doogie
Data is it day ta or da ta?
I'm with Captain Picard on this.
Chop Gate, anyone?
Pneumatic
It took me a while to find out the P was silent.
Place names.... Chichester, the rest of the country pronounces it Chich-ester.
Up here, in South Shields, an area of the town that goes by the same name/spelling, is pronounced Chy-chester
Also, further up the coast, Cambois.
Pronounced Cam-iss
Re whiskey pronunciation, Brian Cox goes through the best known ones on youtube.
Standard up here in Aberdeenshire:
Finzean – fing-ghen
Strachan – strawn
Bennachie – ben-a-hee
Peterculter – peter-coo-ter
Footdee – fit-eeThat’s only a start…
Garioch anyone? (Ghee ree)
Pah, that’s nothing, try:
Aberchirder - Foggieloan
And nearer to me Avoch - och
Milngavie
I grew up there, so I can explain that one. The village has an old (1800s) water mill down on the banks of the Allander Water. The mill was originally owned by Gavin. So the place was "Mill of Gavin".
Gavin gets shortened to "Guy". Hence the pronunciation became "Mill-Guy"
Easy metal heart. Looked to buy The Station in Avoch a while back but binned it as the owner was a total w....r.
Peterculter is always known, at least when I grew up, as 'cooter' which was enough to differentiate it from Maryculter across the river where Champers nightclub was..... showing my age now!
My word is inventory.
I always thought that it stood to reason that if you invent something, and placed it with your other inventions, then you add it to your inventory.
in-vin-tory just sounds weird to me. Even now.
Maryculter across the river where Champers nightclub was
Was it you I used to see there with the big hair and white stilettos?
🤔
I was brought up in Blair’s and Banchory-Devenick...
Hall ith Wood in Bolton, it’s pronounced Hol if wood
And
And Breightmet also in Bolton, it’s Brayt mit not bloody Bright met.
Definitely had big hair and white shoes 🤭 but no heels. We are talking 80's here and I wont mention the leather trousers........
Tyndrum.
It's not a percussive instrument made of metal!
Try this village near me on the outskirts of Northampton – Cogenhoe
Looks like Cog-En-Hoe but is pronounced Cook-Na
My word is inventory.
I always thought that it stood to reason that if you invent something, and placed it with your other inventions, then you add it to your inventory.
in-vin-tory just sounds weird to me. Even now.
You know those words that have different pronunciations depending on usage? Like an ADSL router vs a woodworking router perhaps (Americans aside).
If I was counting things in a store room, I'd be taking an INven-try.
If I were playing an adventure video game, I'd pull up my inVENT-ory.
If we're doing place names, I live near Barnoldswick. Pronounced "Barlick."
Tyndrum.
It’s not a percussive instrument made of metal!
I've no idea what that word is, I've never heard of it before, but that's how I'd have pronounced it from the spelling. Or I guess tine- like fork tines.
Coed-y-Brenin
Apparently it’s not the same as a mixed sex educational establishment.
Ask for the nice painted houses historic wee town start of the pilgrims way in Fife Culross you may get informed it's Cooooorus
'bensales
Coed-y-Brenin
Apparently it’s not the same as a mixed sex educational establishment.'
🙂
Penicuik, as in Pennycook like the chippy that's here.
Here's a few to get your lips around
Culross
Hawick
Cockburn
Kirkcudbright
Nigel Farage. Pronounced ****.
Hmmm. Actually using pronounced as an adjective there.
I like what you did there? 🤣
Also Moire.
Moiré. Moi-ray
It’s a word I learned how to pronounce pretty quickly when I started working in print and publishing, a moiré pattern occurs when a halftone screen on a photo gets a watered-silk sort of pattern if not made properly. Not so much an issue with digital images these days.
Anyone like to have a go at pronouncing the name of my middle son’s form teacher Miss NÍ LEATHLÓBHAIR ?
Anxiety.
I know how to say anxious, but not that.
Emissivity.
Wherr metals conduct away heat at different rates
I alawsys want to lemgthen it, too much for my timy brain to understand
Place name from ‘round here: Leominster
It’s “Lem-Ster” not Leo-Minster
it is actually pronounced “lemner”
