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

Or more glarze go

Glass

Go

Still makes no sound as the "a" in Glasgow is a short "a"...

It's just an accent!

The silly part is when you know it differs from the local way, but trying to go local also sounds daft if it doesn't match the way you speak.

And your MIL sounds daft because she's putting it on

I'd also say Glaz-go.

There was a previous poster who mentioned Wishaw is pronounced as Wishy, but actually her husband is using the Scots for Wishaw. Names like Wishaw and Glasgow read the same but are pronounced differently in Scots. Lots of people across the central belt interchange between the two which is why I think so many Scottish posters are saying they'd say it ever so slightly differently from each other.

The most accurate local pronunciation in English would be Glaz-go. The most accurate local pronunciation in Scots would be Glesca/Glez-ga.

It also worth recognising that not all Glaswegians pronounce Glasgow in the same way. There are a variety of different Glasgow accents. You’ll hear Glaswegians referring to the city as Glaz-go, glass-go, glez-ga, glez-gee and various other things. Which one is the right local pronunciation?

😂

But that isn't how it works. If I pronounced Glasgow as locals do I would sound as if I was taking the piss. Similarly with Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Paris, Barcelona etc. It sounds ridiculous or pretentious, depending on your original accent and the place you're talking about. Imagine saying something like "my daughter is hoping to go to University, she's considering Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle" with each of those places pronounced as the locals would.

Do you say Paree rather than Pariss?

Glesga then?

I would pronounce it the way the locals do. It is their city, they know best...

Glaz-go. I've genuinely never heard anyone say Glarsgow, and we have family members from the SE who live there.

I'm also Southern English.
I read 'ah' and 'ar' as different sounds!

Not having a rhotic r is not inaccurate though as a previous poster said. It's just a different accent.
A non-rhotic speaker pronounces an r in certain circumstances, most noticeably at the beginning of a word like run. In other circumstances the r is a modifier of the preceding vowel, eg. car.

I think (I'm not quite sure, because 'border' and 'boarder' sound the same in my accent) the difference would be pronouncing 'boarder' with a diphthong - making a slight difference between the 'o' and 'a' sounds?

*'that' being 'my pronunciation', for the avoidance of doubt.

This is why, when I'm explaining the long 'a' sound I use in my non-rhotic, broadly Southern English (what I think the OP would call 'RP') accent, I use 'ah' and not 'ar' - because it's confusing for rhotic and international speakers. (It's not just an English thing, btw - standard German is non-rhotic in the same way the variant of English I speak is).

I would say Glaahs-go, but PPs noting the way 'Glaswegian' or place names such as 'Glastonbury' are pronounced does make me wonder whether that's actually wrong as opposed to just a variant.

Including the people who live here.

People saying Glaaaaaarrrrrrrrssssscoh get the 🙄

I’m glad you admit that, as I do think some RP sounds silly! My MiL is at such lengths to try to hide the fact that she’s actually northern that she does things like pronouncing lasagne ‘lasaargne’. She even once said ‘sarnta’ for Santa at Christmas, before correcting herself when she realised she’d gone too far!

I live near 'Wishy'. Glasgow pronounced 'Glazgo' 'Glesky' 'Glezgy'
These threads do my nut in. RP is an accent but it's not the 'correct' one. It's an accent used by some social groups.

My favourite RP inaccurate pronunciation is the difference between "boarder" and "border". Apparently, amongst many RP speakers, they are indistinguishable, so intent are they on suppressing the "r" this time! Adding in "r"s where there are none and removing them where they should be! How bizarre! And how difficult that must make it to correctly pronounce many foreign languages, including all of the Scandinavian languages, German and French

I have a non rhotic accent, northern English accent and border and boarder sound identical to me,,, I'm even imagining them in other accents and I can't understand a difference! Could someone tell me how they'd make it different? Interesting!

Your second point here confuses me. Do you imagine that people with non rhotic accents can't pronounce Rs? 🤣 my foreign language pronunciation is just fine! Besides - the Rs in French are totally different to the way Rs are pronounced in any rhotic English-speaking accent I can think of. Also you seem to think that people are "intent" on not pronouncing Rs... it's not a choice, it's just my accent?! People seem to have a very strong opinion on something most people have never even thought about 🤣

Glazgo

Definitely the long A. It sounds like glass: hard, cold, shining in the rain - just like Glasgow!!

Listening again, I think I say ah more like the second speaker. I'm not very good at this!!

@DappledThings
This is the ah sound I mean. The speakers are American, but I say it the same way. It doesn't sound like ar in an RP accent...does it?

forvo.com/word/bah_humbug/