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How do we pronounce this?

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited July 2023
    CrankyYankee said:
    BenCotto said:
    How about Cairo, @CrankyYankee?

    Kansas and Arkansas is interesting too.

    Kie-row is how I would say it, like tie.  I still don't get that whole Kansas/Arkansas difference to be honest!
    I’m talking about the one in Illinois. Not Cay- ro , then, or Care-o?
    Rutland, England
  • CrankyYankeeCrankyYankee Posts: 504
    edited July 2023
    BenCotto said:
    CrankyYankee said:
    BenCotto said:
    How about Cairo, @CrankyYankee?

    Kansas and Arkansas is interesting too.

    Kie-row is how I would say it, like tie.  I still don't get that whole Kansas/Arkansas difference to be honest!
    I’m talking about the one in Illinois. Not Cay- ro , then, or Care-o?

    I'd still say it like the Cairo in Egypt, but as @rowlandscastle444 noted about the UK, the US is also full of different dialects.  To me, Care-o is a syrup (Karo corn syrup) and Cay-ro sounds like a southern accent.

    New England, USA
    Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostafan1 said:
    Fairygirl said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    Berwick and Lerwick
    Both are pronounced the same - Berrick and Lerrick.
    Most people pronounce Lerwick incorrectly - they add the 'w'. 
    I've never heard anyone pronounce it Lerrick
    Pa taught me to say Lerrick … but he was stationed up there for a little while with the RAF during the wall. I think he loved it there. 

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





  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    edited July 2023
    Fairygirl said:
    Mil guy for Milngavie, not Mul guy.  :)

    Well in ma hoose ma twa parents (fae Glasgae) called it Mulguy. The posher folk said Milguy. 😉
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'm dead posh though....I don't know anyone who would say Mulguy  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd say it M'l guy, so not quite either mil, or mul
    Devon.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Bellingham in Northumberland is pronounced Bellinjum.  I believe other Bellinghams are available...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Magdalen college, Oxford, pronounced Maudlin.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    launceston (Cornwall). Lanson. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Lyn said:
    launceston (Cornwall). Lanson. 
    and there was me always pronouncing it "Lawnston".
    I must be a barbarian!!
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