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aliciapc
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Edinburgh pronounced ...
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Good afternoon, everyone ! I have finished a project with 13-year-olds about different cities in the UK and one student who had prepared a beautiful poster about Scotland, while explaining his project to us, said " Edinburgh" sounding almost as we write it. I corrected him , as I have always heard the name pronounced differently, as the Scottish do, I guess. My student �s question came later : "Do all people in the UK pronounce it like that or just people in Scotland ?" and I didn �t know so I told him I �d find out and tell him tomorrow. Can anyone tell me ? Thank you so much ! |
18 Nov 2010
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douglas
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UK-Edin boro
USA-Edin berg
UK friends please correct me if it is pronounced differently in different regions of the UK. |
18 Nov 2010
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almaz
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I �m from Glasgow and I pronounce it �Edin-bruh � although many other Glaswegians tend to dismiss it as �Embra - the frozen city �  It is definitely not pronounced like Pittsburgh or even Marlboro �.
There �s an interesting link here, which includes a very uncertain Norwegian (there are a few misattributions, though: the person known as �alkessie � from the US is definitely Scots, for example) |
18 Nov 2010
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aliciapc
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Thanks a lot Douglas and Alex, I �ll check out the link as soon as I finish classes today. |
18 Nov 2010
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ldthemagicman
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Dear Aliciapc,
I �m from the Newcastle area in the north of England, and I think that many people in this region pronounce it the way that I do: Ed-in-buh-ruh, with the last 2 syllables very short, and the vowels �u � similar to the flat sound of �u � in �but �.
My mother, from Glasgow, Scotland, pronounced it Em-bra.
(It �s nickname, as the Scots will tell you, is �Auld Reekie �, (Old Reekie), because it reeked (smelled) of black smoke, I believe.)
Les |
18 Nov 2010
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ballycastle1
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Great link, Alex. I hadn �t come across it before. Does it really have all the words in the world? A bit time-consuming to test the claim, though! |
18 Nov 2010
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aliciapc
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Thank you dear Les,
always your clear explanations! I didn �t know about "Old Reekie", interesting.
Your link was really clarifying, Alex, thank you. |
18 Nov 2010
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douglas
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Whatever it �s called, had a great time at a conference there once--the last night we searched-out and investigated nightclubs until the "wee hours" |
19 Nov 2010
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