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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #15 on: 12 April 2010, 23:33:34 »
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)

i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?

Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day

blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden  ;D

Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-

Kirr-caw-dae

 ;D

Langtonian?  me?  Aye.....   :y

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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #16 on: 12 April 2010, 23:58:32 »
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)

i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?

Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day

blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden  ;D

Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-

Kirr-caw-dae

 ;D

Langtonian?  me?  Aye.....   :y


So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #17 on: 13 April 2010, 00:09:57 »
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)

i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?

Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day

blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden  ;D

Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-

Kirr-caw-dae

 ;D

Langtonian?  me?  Aye.....   :y


So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D
How about:-
Kilconquhar
Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?)
Kirkcudbright
Ecclefechan
and assorted others....   ;D 
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #18 on: 13 April 2010, 00:18:06 »
Perhaps there's a job for Countess Dundee in the pronunciation dept. at the Beeb then. ;D
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #19 on: 13 April 2010, 00:18:42 »
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Perhaps there's a job for Countess Dundee in the pronunciation dept. at the Beeb then. ;D
Nope, thats dialect specific, Dundonian is.....   ;D
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #20 on: 13 April 2010, 00:22:09 »
But imagine the conversation as MD tried to explain pronunciation to an english presenter. ;D
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #21 on: 13 April 2010, 00:25:44 »
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Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229RGZH4KNE
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #22 on: 13 April 2010, 00:29:06 »
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Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229RGZH4KNE

Looks like somebody heard the old Prince Charles joke. ;D ;D
« Last Edit: 13 April 2010, 00:29:31 by CaptainZok »
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #23 on: 13 April 2010, 09:40:24 »
This thread is starting to remind me of a time when I got lost in North Devon and asked a local for directions.

Long after I figured it out myself and got where I was going by pure chance, I realised that said local had been very helpful in directing me towards the village spelt (on my map) Woolfardisworthy.

The problem is, his pronunciation contained no more than 2 syllables. The closest word in terms of pronunciation from the known English language would be Wolseley. :-/ Not sure where the middle half of the name went. :-?

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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #24 on: 13 April 2010, 19:31:34 »
A girlfriend of mine many years ago used to be a newsreader! one of the Stevenson sisters. I used to give her a hard time especially when she could not pronounce a particular word or a Scottish word or noun. Hence the BPC connection!  ::)
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #25 on: 14 April 2010, 11:58:56 »
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)

i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?

Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day

blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden  ;D
Apparently at one point the name was going to be changed to "What's that f***ing smell ???"  ;D ;)   

See from 4:15 here (NWS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4B2v6O5AMY

"A Roman and only one ?!?"   ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D fk it - just give us a carpet  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #26 on: 14 April 2010, 13:45:41 »
Kirkaldy is a great place
im up there alot  usually at scoonie hobbies.

Is Kirkaldy no Gordon Browns seat?
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Re: The BBC, The English Language and Julia Bradbury!
« Reply #27 on: 14 April 2010, 14:37:13 »
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)

i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?

Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day

blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden  ;D

Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-

Kirr-caw-dae

 ;D

Langtonian?  me?  Aye.....   :y


So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D

Milngavie is pronounced Mill-Guy, as you know and Bearsden is simply "Bears-Den" but no one from Englandshire seem able to pronounce it???
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