What is the correct pronunciation of Lerwick ?

Near me in Norfolk is the village of Stiffkey, pronounced Stewky by locals and also I believe by Farrow & Ball who have a shade called Stiffkey Blue.

lemongrove

Are we any nearer knowing the true pronunciation of Lerwick?

I think the jury is still out!

varian

I was watching The West Wing recently. They had an absurd character Lord someone who was supposed to be the British ambassador and told the President that he enjoyed a glass of Islay malt which he pronounced Iss- lay!

That absolutely stuck in my craw too!
It was “Lord John Marbury” and they got the title wrong too as he is described as also Earl of Croy.
Lord “John Marbury” would be the younger son of a duke or marquess.
Lord Marbury would be /marquess/earl/viscount/baron of Marbury.
The Earl of Croy would be known as Lord Croy.
The actor (dead now) was actually Welsh, Roger Rees,classically trained (poss RSC) so should have known beter ???

Happisburgh Norfolk is pronounced Haysborough. It will soon all have crumbled into the sea.

What about Northampton?

All of the older people I know in this area call it North-ampton, but over the thirty-odd years that I have lived in the area, almost everyone else has started calling it North-hampton, with an extra aitch.

Daddima my family as far back as 1800s are from Milngavie

Mill and bleach workers, farmers and weavers.
Not to mention a few in the workhouse.

Thankfully we are no longer poor wee church mice.

I live near Alnwick and used to say 'Alanwick' when I first moved here. Soon learnt it was 'Annick'!

I am reading Raven Black by Ann Cleeve’s, I pronounce it Lerwick.

- then there's Warwick! ?

You've made that one up to test us, right? ?

annodomini I did exactly the same as you - until I heard the name pronounced on the radio one day.

Burntisland is a town on the north shore of the Forth estuary directly opposite Edinburgh.

lemongrove

Lucca have never heard of Burntisland, is it in Scotland?
I would guess at two
Burnt island
Burnsland

Not guilty m’lud. Someone else mention Burntisland
I’d guess berland

I was watching The West Wing recently. They had an absurd character Lord someone who was supposed to be the British ambassador and told the President that he enjoyed a glass of Islay malt which he pronounced Iss- lay!

X husband always had a problem with Fochabers !!!

Just realised I posted much the same back in May last year. That's what comes of reviving older threads!

Our dad used to drive us all (3 daughters, mum and dog) to granny's in Fife. Burntisland was on our route and it wasn't until I was in my teens that I realised it was Burnt Island - not Burntis Land!

lemongrove

Lucca have never heard of Burntisland, is it in Scotland?
I would guess at two
Burnt island
Burnsland

The first one Lemon. Its in Fife.

Are we any nearer knowing the true pronunciation of Lerwick?

Lucca have never heard of Burntisland, is it in Scotland?
I would guess at two
Burnt island
Burnsland

Now people move around s so much now, the old not phonetic pronounciations are now being lost.

My aunt and uncle always pronounced Cirencester 'Cissister' . I was in troubleif I said anything else.

I used to live in a village, name pronounced 'Finch'mstead. Now always called FinchHAMstead.

As for foreign cities, one of my favourites is Munich/München. Back in the early sixties, the local American Forces Network in Bavaria used to describe its midday records programme as “your luncheon in Muncheon”.

Anybody want to have a go at Burntisland?

Clue - it's not, as I heard on the TV recently, Burntis-land ?

Or in a TV program last week supposedly set in Dundee; Lochee pronounced Lotch-ee, emphasis on the Lotch.

The w is silent. It is pronounced Lerick.

In the Glasgow area we said Lerrick and Kir'coddy as in The De'ils deed, the De'ils deed and buried at Kir'cody
Some say he's risen agin, risen agin tae daunce the Hielan' laddie.

My father maintained he had been shown the Devil's grave in the kirkyard at Kirkcady when he was a boy.

I remember the town mainly for the smell of lino that was made there in my childhood. We drove through on our way to Pittenweem where my grandparents lived.

Uffam....