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How do we pronounce this?

John HardingJohn Harding Posts: 541
in Fruit & veg
Hi all,
I have grown leeks from seed this year and they are doing very well. The variety is Musselburgh - but how is this pronounced? is it musselberg (as in iceberg) or musselborough (as in Edinburgh) or mussel borrooger (as in the Australian for Loughborough) ;) John H

PS, I have previously grown a variety called 'Stocky' from DT Brown but this year they have been very slow so switched to the above.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    As in Edinburgh 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As Musselburgh is just down the road from Edinburgh I’ve always pronounced them similarly. 

    That’s the way I’ve heard others pronounce it too. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • John HardingJohn Harding Posts: 541
    Thank you Hostafan 1 - I had wondered and it was going round & around in my mind as things do when we get older. (I guess Fairy-Girl should have put me right on that one)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'm too late to the conservation - sorry!
    Yes - same as Edinburgh - ie Mussel-burra, with the emphasis on the mussel part, and the 'burra' is usually shortened and sounds more like 'bru' - but not as in Irn Bru....  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    As Musselburgh is just down the road from Edinburgh I’ve always pronounced them similarly. 

    That’s the way I’ve heard others pronounce it too. 

    Although I've heard lots of Americans pronounce it as Edinberg so that may not be too helpful to them. :D
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    As Musselburgh is just down the road from Edinburgh I’ve always pronounced them similarly. 

    That’s the way I’ve heard others pronounce it too. 

    Although I've heard lots of Americans pronounce it as Edinberg so that may not be too helpful to them. :D
    And lots of English say gre nock for Greenock. It's green, like the colour. It's Greenwich which is wrong 
    Devon.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Embra. Mussilbra.
    Sunny Dundee
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Balgay.Hill said:
    Embra. Mussilbra.
    Happisburgh = Hazebra

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Woolfardisworthy= Woolzery
    Devon.
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