I have heard several different ways of pronouncing Kirroughtree, can anyone phonetically spell it for me please?

"gerrr-offffff-meeee"

Ker rock tree

is my guess

Ki – rug – tree is how I've always heard it pronounced

nbt +1

Surprisingly, as it is spelt.
Ki as in kick
rr is obvious
ough as och in loch
and tree
more importantly is not to try to make it sound like it is several words
but just one word.

'kirrertree'

i know it's probably 'wrong' but i've Anglo-cised it.

after all, Munich isn't Munich, it's 'Mun-chunn' – etc, but we've Anglo-cised it.

+ one for Macavity, as I found out in a bakers shop in Dalbeattie-poor woman behind the counter asked me where we were riding and it took her a minute or two to work out that I was trying to pronounce Kirroughtree-doh! I was using an anglicised version like awiles

nbt+1 & macavity, having been told off by the lady in the teashop for pronouncing it wrong!!!

ask her to pronounce 'cogenhoe'

when she get's it wrong, tell her to cock off.

I was talking to someone who had been there recently and they pronounced it Kilitree!!!

Chances of me spending time in tea shops is ver high and I don't want to offend anyone.

i say it how its spelt ! kir-rough-tree

+1 Macavity

also Ae is just 'A' as in abc and Mabie as in maybe I will maybe I won't.

I live about 30 miles from it and its pronounced Kirroch-tri but without much pause between the parts

The only acceptable Anglicised version would be Kirrock-tri

Surprisingly, as it is spelt.
Ki as in kick
rr is obvious
ough as och in loch

So not how it's spelt then. 😉

also Ae is just 'A' as in abc and Mabie as in maybe I will maybe I won't.

So how do you pronounce 'Drumlanrig' then Rik? 😉

Castle Douglas is just plain C.D.

Dalbeattie in a local accent is D` batie..the a being sounded sa itself a 😮

Kirry is Kir off tree or Kir och tree

Hmmmm, the lady in the garage at the end of Newton Stewart explained to me it was pronounced as 'Elaine-Anne' up there 🙄 describes it.

Kir-ruff-tree

But I'm from Bonnybridge, so anyone who can speak with joined up letters sounds a bit funny to me.

B. 😆

Which tea shop was it? we stopped off at the David Coulthard museum of mediocrity.

Kirkcudbright = Kirkcoobri
Torthorwald = Torwald
The surname Tough: think tuoch, tu as in touch and ugh like och as in loch.
The geographical feature Haugh (or place name eg Haugh of Urr)
is (soft H) hau like haw as in hawthorn, and ugh like och as in loch.

Kirroughtree repeat after me Kirroughtree
It is quite simple really.

Torthorwald = Torwald

I've always pronounced that "torthorauld" i.e. with a silent W. Likewise Tinwald.

And Dumfries is pronounced "skeemie shite hole" 😉

(I was born at the Cresswell and went to both primary and secondary school in Dumfries, before anyone asks me to validate my credentials 😀 )

I've always pronounced it kirrotree and never had any questions raised. I'll ask the locals 🙂

Kit. You are an ar5e hole. Yeah some bits are bad but a lot of Dumfries is fine.

As Macavity said. Although I don't think many english folk can pronounce it properly – as in the 'roch' part, it's the same way 'loch is pronounced, if you pronounce loch like lock then it's not right.

I live about a mile from Torthorwald and it's pronounced kinda like T'thorold, first o silent second o and the wa sounded as in otter . My village is Collin is pronounced Ku'lin with the emphasis on lin. Lots of Norse round the coastal parts here – Castle of Thors wood.

And Drum – lan – rig is easy to say and a very nice place to ride 😉

Kit. You are an ar5e hole.

Bite me. Born and bred in Dumfries, but it's just my opinion and clearly not representative of those who still live there. The town's nice, but populated largely by narrow minded folk. Or it was when I left for more cosmopolitan pastures 12 years ago. I do still get looked at funny when I stop in Tesco – they're probably trying to figure out why I'm not related to them in any way…

Bite me. Born and bred in Dumfries, but it's just my opinion and clearly not representative of those who still live there. The town's nice, but populated largely by narrow minded folk. Or it was when I left for more cosmopolitan pastures 12 years ago. I do still get looked at funny when I stop in Tesco – they're probably trying to figure out why I'm not related to them in any way…

Thing is that everyone falls into 2 groups WRT their home town. They either love it or hate it.

Kit – I'm not having a go, but out of interest, how old are you?

I live in Cov and some people slag it off all the time and I think "well, f*** off then and live somewhere else". I can never understand why adults would live somewhere they think is crap.

i pronouce it kirrau-tree

but i've heard others ki-ruch-tree

This piece on Dumfries' Facebook page is written by those who live there, but does contain mild swearing

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=5590218749&topic=3209

[It's my hometown and place of birth too! Oh, and I have often considered getting a pad there if I thought I could get work there.]

I'm 37. Brought up in Lochmaben but now live in Dumfries.

The local primary school gets good HMI reports so ideal for my young family.

Sure Lochside & Sandside are rough but you get that most places.