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

Glasgow rhythms with. "cars go" for me. Home counties.

Glars-go- from Cambridge area with typical RP accent

From South West London. Glars go.

Old or high RP (1930s newscaster) Gl-our-ss-goh
modern RP Gl - as -go

That was to @AchatAVendre

Again (a bit like border and boarder being pronounced differently) I'd honestly no idea that other people weren't taught at primary school to say the lower case letters first and then the capitals. So yes, they are all different. Otherwise, how do teachers differentiate between capitals and lower case when teaching children how to spell?

My son has just finished Reception. He has been taught that they are called "capital letters" and "lower case letters".

As parents we were asked to learn how to make the phonics sounds and we were specifically warned not to say "buh", "cuh" "duh" etc (instead you just make the sound of the letter, without adding any extra vowel on to it, IYSWIM) so I am fairly sure that these sounds were not being taught as a way to read out the alphabet.

Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting the ay sound was in Glasgow @AchatAVendre.

Again (a bit like border and boarder being pronounced differently) I'd honestly no idea that other people weren't taught at primary school to say the lower case letters first and then the capitals. So yes, they are all different. Otherwise, how do teachers differentiate between capitals and lower case when teaching children how to spell?

To be honest, in Scotland, you need a lot of different vowel sounds anyway. So a lot of people here might pronoonce the sound of a letter as soond. Which again is similar to the larger number of vowels that the Scandinavian languages have.

Ignoring the assorted "Glas" versions, when English people say Glarsgow, we Glaswegians hear Glarsgou.
The English ow or oh sound, sounds like "ou" to Glaswegians.
Although English people saying "ou" sound like they are saying "aoo"!
Where does it stop,😁

I think people are confusing the long "a" with the stressed or unstressed syllable. Glasgow has 2 syllables, both are unstressed (I am Scottish).

If you put an "r" into the first syllable, it becomes a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

As an RP speaker, yes we do hear the r sound in Glasgow because it's using the same sound as the sound of car. The r in car is modifying the a with its r-ness. It's obviously not the same r sound as in rabbit or heron. And in a word like never the r contributes to the schwa sound instead of being an r.

PP is right - long a is ay - long e is ee - long i is eye etc - all of these sounds can be shown with the magic e modifier, eg. mat/mate, rob/robe, cut/cute and are the same as the letter name.

I know my DC were taught in school (in Ireland) that the long a is the sound in hay and ape as @queenmeadhbh said. There are lots of tutorials online saying much the same thing.

The long a has come up on MN threads before and also causes confusion. Is there more than one long a sound?

The a in at is a short a. So how a Northern accent would say grass. Short a is how you say "a" when learning phonics. Long a is like ah, or how a Southern accent would say grass.

The ay of tray and way is another sound altogether.

@queenmeadhbh - it’s not a long a to me. A long a is is ‘way’, ‘tray’. Short a ‘car’. So Grass is ‘at’ sound, not a long or short a

I have an RP accent and would pronounce it Glazgo. Glaaarsgo would be a 'posh' pronunciation. Does anyone remember the repulsive art critic Bian Sewell? He had the grating 'posh' accent and would have lengthened the a into a kind of sneering drawl: Glaaaarrsgo.

I have never liked the posh/UP accent. It isn't even pleasant. It's ugly, and is designed to intimidate and belittle people. The RP is just a mildly refined accent, with the regional accent lurking in the background. Stephen Fry, for example, has an RP rather than a truly posh accent. I grew up in Norfolk and absolutely hate the Norfolk accent. I've done everything I can to get rid of it, and I don't apologize. It's ghastly.

Me! Yorkshire lass though!

That is a “long A”!

someone upthread posted this which explains very well (note: without making reference to R!) Trap-bath split

The A in Glasgow I pronounce like AR in CAR.

Not a ‘long A’ or ‘AH’ or ‘Aah’ .I think that’s what the person above does to.

So if you say that you “pronounce Glasgow with an R” (still not true, but let’s pretend) because you hear the name of the letter R in the middle of it, do you say that you pronounce “seesaw” with a C, because it starts with the sound of the name of the letter C?

if yes you are completely bananas!
if no then saying you pronounce Glasgow with an R is still as untrue as it was when we all presumed you meant you pronounce an R sound in it.

You keep saying “yes yes I understand but do YOU get what I mean?”. We do get what you mean which is “if I try to transcribe my pronunciation of Glasgow, I put an R in it, because that is one of the letter combinations in my accent that will result in a long A vowel sound”. What is and always has been impossible is that you or anyone else pronounces an R sound in Glasgow!!

So, I had convinced myself that A, B, C, D etc are pronounced like you are singing the alphabet song (A like hay without the h, B like bee, c like sea etc) , and a, b, c, d are pronounced “ah, buh, cuh, duh” etc. But that's almost right except it's ah, buh, c with no vowel sound, duh

Year 1 pupils know more about phonics than you do😂
You pronounce the letter r/R /ar/ A/a = /ay/ B/b = bee but that's different from the letter sounds eg /r/ is just rrr on its own - no vowel sound

I say Glasgow and Doncaster with short 'cat' a. But bath, grass, glass with a long one.