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#1776 |
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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!
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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He's obviously not a Parks And Recreation viewer then.
No, this was back in the nineties, so a long time before that. |
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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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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'll know in future if I'm ever up that way. |
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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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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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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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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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