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To think an English teacher should know the correct pronunciation of Glamis?

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susannahmoodie · 16/09/2015 06:15

As in Thane of......?

Or is it now ok to say "glam-mis"??

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futureme · 16/09/2015 07:59

I didn't do English but it is easy at Oxbridge colleges to spend most of the time reading and writing essays on your own rather than being in lectures. You may have one tutorial over the course of the degree where a word is mentioned. I can see how you could be very knowledgeable and still get pronunciation wrong.

Bolograph · 16/09/2015 07:59

One is reminded of this:

BathtimeFunkster · 16/09/2015 07:58

How anyone who had enough interest in English Literature to choose to do a degree in the subject and could have never read or seen Macbeth is beyond me.

You obviously don't know much about the number of books that have been written.

OliviaM91 · 16/09/2015 07:57

You are not being unreasonable, Macbeth is a very well known play.

whattheseithakasmean · 16/09/2015 07:51

But surely when you do an English degree, you must have an interest in the subject? How anyone who had enough interest in English Literature to choose to do a degree in the subject and could have never read or seen Macbeth is beyond me.

Are the people with English degrees on this thread whi have never read Macbeth getting them from the ex-polys?

TimeToMuskUp · 16/09/2015 07:50

*Castle, even

TimeToMuskUp · 16/09/2015 07:49

2ndSopranos I grew up near to Belvoir Catsle and lots of places around Leicestershire are named Belvoir; everyone in Leicestershire when I was growing up would pronounce it "Beaver" but MIL came to Belvoir Castle with the DCs not long ago and pronounced it "Bel-vwah".

I still have no idea which is the 'correct' pronunciation.

I only know about Glamis because I have friends in Forfar I try and stay with once a year.

MythicalKings · 16/09/2015 07:48

YABU. I'd struggle to care about it.

MyBoysAreFab · 16/09/2015 07:47

On a more frivolous note, I live quite near Glamz. They are having a Christmas Market there which I am very excited about.

BathtimeFunkster · 16/09/2015 07:45
Grin

How completely ridiculous.

There are few things more tedious than people who think knowing some obscure, non-phonetic pronunciation in a Shakespeare play means they are really clever and knowledgeable.

Maybe you should go into her classroom and show her how it's done, the ignorant bitch?

OldCrowMedicineShow · 16/09/2015 07:43

Alice Yes. Damn at being outed. Grin

Gunpowder · 16/09/2015 07:39

YY what ILiked said

Gunpowder · 16/09/2015 07:38

I've read and seen it several times, but never through formal learning.

Ilikedmyoldusernamebetter · 16/09/2015 07:38

When you do an English degree Shakespeare is one optional module, and you study a play per week minimum - you read the plays privately, not in tutorials or lecture time obviously as that would be an utter waste of time at that level, and don't go and see every play. Lectures don't always focus on just one play, but often on a bigger theme, such as The Carnivalesque...

In this context it would be very easy to graduate in the top 2% of your year from a university considered to be in the top 10 in the country for English, with a 1st class honours degree, without speaking aloud the word Glamis or watching the play...

Thebirdsneedseeds · 16/09/2015 07:37

Alice...Grin te he he!

Gunpowder · 16/09/2015 07:35

Not everyone studies the Scottish play as part of their English degree.

Bolograph · 16/09/2015 07:34

Do we each have a list of "ooh you can't be an English teacher if you haven't read..." books?

In one of Lodge's books, a group of English academics stage a game called "Humiliation". You name a book you haven't read, and get a point for everyone in the room who has. Famously competitive, one academic desperate to win claims not to have read or see Hamlet and torches his career.

I think you can expect a broad familiarity with Shakespeare from those that have studied English in the English system without drawing up a list of obscure books to use to trip people up.

AliceAlice1979 · 16/09/2015 07:33

Old crow are you the queen?

Thebirdsneedseeds · 16/09/2015 07:33

YY oldcrow

OldCrowMedicineShow · 16/09/2015 07:30

Jolly, I beg to differ!

The English pronunciation tends toward "Glaams' - the local (Forfar and Glens) pronounciation is 'Glamz'. I lived there

Thebirdsneedseeds · 16/09/2015 07:27

I grew up nearby and never heard anyone pronounce it anything other than glams

Yanbu OP

whattheseithakasmean · 16/09/2015 07:23

Do the secondary school English teacher on this thread have an English degree? I am in Scotland and you have to have a degree in the subject you teach at secondary school. I cannot see how you can get an English degree and never have come across Macbeth & the Thane of Glamis.

standclear · 16/09/2015 07:22

Sorry but how do you become an English teacher and not know this?

JollyGolightly · 16/09/2015 07:20

English people pronounce it Glamz. In the local accent it sounds more like Glammis. Perhaps the English teacher is from Angus or has holidayed there and adopted some of the local ways?

Blackcloudsbrightsky · 16/09/2015 07:16

YANBU