http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Passengers left 'rather upset' by Lothian bus announcements mispronouncing names en Thu, 21 May 2026 09:48:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322260 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:36:46 +0000 crowriver 322260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Edinbru, surely?"</p> <p>Or maybe for Gen Z: </p> <p>Edin, bruh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322256 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 19:14:45 +0000 Arellcat 322256@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Other pronunciations are available.</em></p> <p>- Edenburrow, as much-missed Jacquie Phelan liked to pronounce it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322244 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:14:02 +0000 Frenchy 322244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinbru, surely? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322242 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:10:56 +0000 crowriver 322242@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely the good burghers of Fair Edina have become thick-skinned about mis-pronunciation? After all, hardly anyone from outwith the urbis can pronounce our recently agreed spelling for the city that was once Dunedin.</p> <p>Is it:</p> <p>- Embra<br /> - Edinburra<br /> - Edinbarra<br /> - Edinborra<br /> - Edinboro<br /> - Edinburr<br /> - Edinburh<br /> - Edinbuerre<br /> - Edinburg<br /> - Edimbourg</p> <p>Other pronunciations are available. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322226 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:56:03 +0000 gembo 322226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Billy Kay’s Bar doing recce for our trip with your other friends</p> <p>THink Braw Ham but when you speak it out loud slide it a bit into Brawm </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322223 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:21:51 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was in Kays Bar on Wednesday and the gents next to us were at skweel wi Billy Kay. Braw ham you say? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322222 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:14:52 +0000 gembo 322222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just think that’s a braw ham sandwich you have there Henry </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322220 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:11:53 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I never say 'Brougham Street' because I don't know how to. This is a shame as I like Cloisters. (Which I pronounce 'clwah-stray' in my head.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322213 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 10:59:33 +0000 Cyclingmollie 322213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coillesdene Avenue gets pronounced correctly and incorrectly on the same bus. </p> <p>Trains have same challenge. Listen for the inserted correction of Stow on the Borders line. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322202 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:26:36 +0000 Rosie 322202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Blueth - I always hear Mag- DAH-la on the bus. Whereas my instinct is to say MAG-da-la. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322201 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:55:42 +0000 Blueth 322201@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some of those go against my understanding over the best part of seventy years. I don't myself, but many locals have used the T in Restalrig.</p> <p>I have, though, noticed that the pronounciation of Magdala Crescent varies from bus to bus.</p> <p>Worse is the apparent inability of the Council to spell Craigmillar on the cycle routes nearby. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322195 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:06:57 +0000 Arellcat 322195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Morningside residents on hearing Morningside not pronounced on LBs as "Mawning-sayd" said to be distinctly miffed." :)</p> <p>(I haven't read the article)</p> <p>But reminds me of something my Grandad used to joke about, of a colleague's hometown. "Is it Brough, Brough or Brough?"</p> <p>(to rhyme with cough, rough and plough) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322191 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:54:59 +0000 gembo 322191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hume enlightened but not about slavery </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322185 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:56:01 +0000 Frenchy 322185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Home" as "Hume" is just ridiculous, though: if that's how you pronounce your name, then maybe you should spell it a much more obvious way</em></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Early_life_and_education">Great minds...</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322184 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:52:37 +0000 davecykl 322184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm afraid to say that I didn't know the correct pronunciation for any of these! Well, you live and learn… </p> <p>("Home" as "Hume" is just ridiculous, though: if that's how you pronounce your name, then maybe you should spell it a much more obvious way (and is it "Hoome" or "Hyume")? (Although I suppose since we do have a language that brings us a multiplicity of "ough"s, well…))</p> <p>It's amusing that the article itself hypercorrects Carlton Terrace Brae back to "Calton Terrace Brae", although I wonder if that name was itself chosen either because "Calton" didn't sound posh enough, or as a result of a mishearing/rhoticisation of the name of the hill? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20079#post-322181 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:42:46 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 322181@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Think this ship may have long since sailed</p> <p>I apparently spent years living in Broughton while mispronouncing it...</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/passengers-left-rather-upset-lothian-bus-announcements-mispronouncing-edinburgh-area-names-1391120" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/passengers-left-rather-upset-lothian-bus-announcements-mispronouncing-edinburgh-area-names-1391120</a> </p>