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If your accent is RP English, how do you pronounce “Glasgow”?

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Wigeon · 31/07/2022 20:19

Settle an argument between DH and me:

YANBU: Glasgow in an RP English accent is pronounced “Glarsgow” with a long “arr” or “arh” in the middle. Like the “a” in “car” (in an RP accent).

YABU: Glasgow in an RP English accent is pronounced “Gl-ah-sgow”, with a short “ah”, like the “a” in “cat” (in an RP accent).

OP posts:
RNBrie · 31/07/2022 20:26

RP = Recieved Pronunciation (i.e how the Queen speaks).

rnsaslkih · 31/07/2022 20:26

RP is the Queen’s English and therefore it’s Glarsgow with that accent.

Original poster
Wigeon · 31/07/2022 20:25

Sunnyqueen · 31/07/2022 20:22

I dont know what RP is but i say it like the second one

RP is the “standard” British accent, like you’d expect BBC newsreaders to have, and the “standard” pronunciation that foreigners are taught.

OP posts:
landoflostcontent · 31/07/2022 20:24

Anyone else say Glaz-go

frasersmummy · 31/07/2022 20:23

I have no idea what an rp accent but living just outside the city I can honestly say no one I know pronounces it with an r..

DobbyTheHouseElk · 31/07/2022 20:23

Glar-sc-go. I’m very RP.

Yika · 31/07/2022 20:22

Sorry not clear, Glarsgow

lancsgirl85 · 31/07/2022 20:22

Definitely the 2nd one

Willowkins · 31/07/2022 20:22

Rhymes with cat

User0610134049 · 31/07/2022 20:22

yanbu - the first one

(although I don’t know what an “RP” English accent is but I’m as southern as they get)

Yika · 31/07/2022 20:22

Glahhsgow for RP me.

Sunnyqueen · 31/07/2022 20:22

I dont know what RP is but i say it like the second one

sanityisamyth · 31/07/2022 20:21

Glars-gow