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Nice programme on C4 tonight as Timothy West and Prunella Scales travel between Edinburgh and Glasgow by canal.
Fountainbridge, Ratho, Avon aquaduct, Falkirk Wheel, the Waverley all shown along with some footage of the canal at its unloved low point
A pleasant Sunday evening show, spoilt only by Timothy West's inability to pronounce Falkirk.
Recommended.
Ah, forgot about this! Watched one of the ones from down south and it was really good. Praise be for On Demand.
"inability to pronounce Falkirk"
My dad once went into a shop in Camelon and asked, how do you pronounce the name of this place?
"Spar" was the incredulous reply.
@Cb that's a great wee story.
My old flatmate in St. Andrews (from Leicestershire) would frequently disorientate me in conversations with his references to Kirk Caldy. He had no excuse given his family actually hailed from there a few generations past.
Let's not get started on Kilconquhar or St. Monans.
I was cycling beside Loch Lomond at the weekend. The big house (now, Rossdhu Mansion) is the seat of Clan Colquhoun. I wonder how many non-natives have trouble with that one.
Took a holiday cottage for a weekend with some friends near Muthill. We honestly never did find out if our guessed pronunciation was correct. The nearest chip shop had a delightful profusion of errant apostrophes in their signage though none where they were needed. I like to think someone came to rearrange them every day like the letters on the Fawlty Towers sign.
It's the same anywhere. You wouldn't believe how many people don't know how to pronounce Carlisle or Moresby.
We had a member of staff once with a combi boiler manufactured by Worcester.
After she had described it two or three times, I didnt have the heart to correct her !
I was in a Twitter discussion last week where someone seriously suggested that Cockenzie was pronounced Cockinnie and it wasn't 1st April.
@Nelly
I don't understand as I too have a Wark-ester Bose'ch combi boiler.
Wouldn't it be "Cokingh", extrapolating from Menzies-as-a-first-name?
Despite there being some regions-suffixed-Shire up here it's often over-pronounced "shy-urrr" in reference to southron -shire counties, whereas it's often reduced to -"ʃƏ" in the southron counties themselves.
My mum grew up in Abbeyhill and was not pleased to have me correct her that it should be "Cad-yow" and not "Cad-zoh" Place. As she was a teacher she spent my childhood chiding me for performing the east coast glottal stop, so I go out of my way if there's a chance to pick her up on matters of dialect. They later moved to Mont-peel-yur in Bruntsfield. A generation later I too lived in the same street but it took a number of years before I realised it isn't spelled Brunstfield.
I've only ever known it as ~= "cawkinnie" and according to random internet pages this is how the locals say it. The magic ingredient being the yogh like in Menzies.
Apparently early printers in the Scottish lowlands didn't have access to yoghs which were reasonably common in place and family names of old French descent, so used lower-case or cursive Zs instead, and your Dalziels and Menzies and Cadzows stuck.
I never knew that Mackenzie is "meant" to be pronounced Mackendjie.
If it's on Wikipedia, it must be true.
I wonder if Lenzie is really Lendjie.
I took a wrong turn today and got my first sight of the Falkirk Wheel as a result. It's really impressive.
The cafe is OK too. I was there on Sunday. They do potato scones on a roll.
There is a nice watery play park for the warmer weather. It has an Archimedes screw and a way to make a soliton wave.
They did have model Kelpies last summer but I couldn't see them at the weekend.
Also nice to approach via the long tunnel. However if I cycle there again on canal I will take the road back as it gets to be a slog and a half.
As long as the 'way to make a soliton wave' is a horse-drawn narrowboat we're good to go.
Suspect 'soliton wave' is a tautology, but willing to let it go.
My aunt is from Lenzie, and it is...drum roll....Lenzie.
Heard a third pronunciation of Menzies apart from menzies and Mingus. Sounded like meanies. But even the person whose name it was gave up and resorted to Menzies for purposes of spelling.
Was it not local dialect that lead to signs produced by the council for Colington?
@Wilmington's Cow they threw those in the pile of rejects alongside those for Dumfermline
Where is this place they mentioned Fal Kirk?
I was dissapointed to hear no mention of the Slateford Aquaduct pusher inner.
Here is a thing about colinton. Phoebe Anne Traquair of the murals fame is buried in the church yard. See Kelly Castle in Fife or the church at Drummond high school for murals of angels.
Apparently some railings in colinton by her too.
Cool. Those railings are visible on StreetView (just by the bridge) I've been past there lots of times and never noticed/knew they were there!
I enjoyed the programme. I'm amazed at how neglected the canals were. And it's interesting to see two people adapting to the effects of aging in such a positive way.
I was sitting beside both of them in the Citz a few years ago. The audience were more famous than the players. It was a play about Laurel and Hardy.
aedan
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