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Old 04-01-2017, 15:33
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I used to think it was Isle-ay rather than Izzlay, but then Scottish placenames can be a mystery to non-Scots!
See my example above, which I added in. Also:

Milngavie - Mill-guy
Kircudbright - Kir-COO-bri
Kircaldy - Kircoddy

And so on. I've even heard Falkirk pronounced as Faalkirk on the telly, with the first bit rhyming with The Mall, although admittedly not on the BBC.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:37
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He's obviously not a Parks And Recreation viewer then.
I'd never heard of that. I had to look it up.

No, this was back in the nineties, so a long time before that.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:38
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One of the Weatherwatchers' pictures on the forecast today was from Finzean in Aberdeenshire. I was waiting for him to say it, but he just said Aberdeenshire

(I'm from the South [of England] but I actually stayed in a cottage there once which is how I know how it's pronounced - think Menzies!)
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:53
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One of the Weatherwatchers' pictures on the forecast today was from Finzean in Aberdeenshire. I was waiting for him to say it, but he just said Aberdeenshire

(I'm from the South [of England] but I actually stayed in a cottage there once which is how I know how it's pronounced - think Menzies!)
I'm embarrassed to say I've never even heard of it, never mind how to pronounce it. However I found a Youtube video on it - Finghan.

I'll know in future if I'm ever up that way.
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Old 04-01-2017, 18:28
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I often read the word "misled" incorrectly initially for some reason. I know it is pronounced Miss-Led but often initially read it as like "muzzled" but with the "i" pronounced like "eye" in place of the "u".

I also think it would work as a word meaning to do something miserly. E.g. "Scrooge misled all his money away".

It's funny seeing Milngavie above as I have always pronounced both ways (the correct way as in Mulgie) but also phonetically so that I can spell it. It is often also pronounced phonetically as a joke by people.
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Old 04-01-2017, 20:20
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Regarding misread words, I always do a double-take when someone writes 'lead' instead of 'led' for the past tense of 'to lead'. I always hear it in my head as 'leed'.

(Or for Sarahsaurus "in my heid". I was watching the recent Kevin Bridges stand-up with the [necessary!] subtitles on and they spelt it 'heid' there. )
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:02
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Regarding misread words, I always do a double-take when someone writes 'lead' instead of 'led' for the past tense of 'to lead'. I always hear it in my head as 'leed'.

(Or for Sarahsaurus "in my heid". I was watching the recent Kevin Bridges stand-up with the [necessary!] subtitles on and they spelt it 'heid' there. )
Aye, laddie. It's the Scots that makes the i before e rule deid wrang!
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:23
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Regarding misread words, I always do a double-take when someone writes 'lead' instead of 'led' for the past tense of 'to lead'. I always hear it in my head as 'leed'.

(Or for Sarahsaurus "in my heid". I was watching the recent Kevin Bridges stand-up with the [necessary!] subtitles on and they spelt it 'heid' there. )
Heid is the correct spelling. There is a pub down the road from me in Edinburgh called The Sheep Heid inn (not as some call it, the Sheep's Heid). It is possibly the oldest pub in Edinburgh. They claim it goes back to 1360.
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