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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Hey everyone, this is pretty random... but I need to know how 'Edinburgh' is pronounced.

Is it Eh-din-burg

or is it Eh-din-borrow

other?

Thanks :thumb:
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ya know what, I've always wondered that too.

    I always just say Eee-den-burg
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ed-in-borough
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    borough

    And how is that pronounced? Similar to borrow? Yesterday I boroughed my sisters pants?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my_name wrote:
    And how is that pronounced? Similar to borrow? Yesterday I boroughed my sisters pants?
    Lol, yeah, it seems so.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Eh-din-burr-uh
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my_name wrote:
    And how is that pronounced? Similar to borrow? Yesterday I boroughed my sisters pants?

    Mmm... instead of 'borrow', try 'burruh' or 'burrah'. Depends on accent, I guess. :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ah, very informative, thanks! :thumb: :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mmm... instead of 'borrow', try 'burruh' or 'burrah'. Depends on accent, I guess. :)

    yea, like borrow, just with an 'u', "burrow".

    Hey, even I knew that :P and I'm from an country where "burg" is ALWAYS simply "burg" :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I prounce it Ed-in-burrah.

    And I should know :o
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    sophia wrote:
    No, it's not like that. That's usually how American tourists pronounce it, Edin-burrow, and they get the piss taken out of them for it.

    It's hard to type phonetically the correct way to pronounce it, but it's more like Edin-bruh or something like that, than Edin-burrow.

    yeah, that's because I speak Autrish-English and I pronounce burrow different than you :D
    prounce

    and you pronounce pronounce prounce
    sorry couldn't resist :P

    *takes stance for sophia's counterattack*
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I say it edin-bruh (and middles-bruh). I ALMOST say edin-buruh but not quite
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Infinite wrote:
    I prounce it Ed-in-burrah.
    me too :yes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kangoo wrote:
    I say it edin-bruh (and middles-bruh). I ALMOST say edin-buruh but not quite
    :yes:
    you say it right imo ;)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :angel:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i say edin-bruh
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I love Americans trying to pronounce names of british towns. Birmingham and Yorkshyyyyre.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Heard an American asking someone in Newcastle for Alnwick (pronounced it aln-wick) :lol:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ^Might be funny if I knew how it was supposed to sound... ;)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i say edinbruh or edinbuh
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ^Might be funny if I knew how it was supposed to sound... ;)

    Annick
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I always want to say glasglow too [/random]
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ignore what all these other jokers have been saying, its pronounced ed-in-berg. true dat!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I say edinbra but Isuspect it's rightful sounding is edinba
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I usually pronounce it "The AIDS infested shitehole where that lowlife Rise and Shine lives", although I suppose it depends on your accent.

    Edin-burra
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Edinbruh. :chin:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ehdinbruh
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kangoo wrote:
    Heard an American asking someone in Newcastle for Alnwick (pronounced it aln-wick) :lol:


    you dont have to be foreign to make that mistake thank you, took me ages to work out where the fuck this "annick" place was on the map.


    no one outside of the "Lundan" area can pronounce Watford correctly. Its wotford, not waatfor'
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hehe sorry, just found it amusing
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    It's because your stupid language can't follow simple rules like "Read the letter that you see" :p
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