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

[susannahmoodie]

As in Thane of......?

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

It is pronounced 'Glamz'.

Did it keep you awake all night?

I've never heard of this. I'm guessing that Glamis is the name of someone or somewhere. Is it from a poem or story?

And having never heard of Glamis, the teacher's pronunciation looks like a reasonable guess phonetically speaking.

Yes Shadow, MacBeth, so English teachers really ought to know

It's from Macbeth. Also name of Queen Mum's childhood home - hence the snob value.

Glamis is a small village a few miles from Forfar in the county of Angus. Famous for its castle. Birthplace of the Queen Mother.

I suppose if you've only ever read it and not seen it performed/heard it read by someone else, you wouldn't know how it's pronounced.

Many teachers feel that parents should know how to use the word 'No' occasionally.

If the teacher had never seen the play or studied it herself, I think it's a reasonable mistake to make.

Yes she should. Is she a secondary school teacher?

As damsel says, the English teacher may never have seen a performance of Macbeth or been to the place in Scotland.

Surely English teacher should know about metre and wonder... 'Thane of Glamis, and Cawdor too' (IIRC) wouldn't go dum-di-dum-di-dum-di-dum with 2 syllables in Glamis. You have no idea how little my phone liked that!

But I guess if I was an English teacher who taught Macbeth every year, i'd probably make an effort to see a TV adaptation or a performance at some point.

What Shadow just said.

I didn't recall correctly! No idea where that came from. But still.

I don't think it's a reasonable guess because there's only one m in it.

Macbeth is one of the really well known plays. Yes, I'd expect a teacher to know how to pronounce the character names in such a well-known play.

(And I think that there being a thread about one who can't, shows how unusual it is to come across a teacher making public bloopers of this sort).

An English teacher not having seen the Scottish Play would be a big issue. It's been on the GCSE syllabus pretty well forever!

Belvoir or Cholmondley being pronounced wrong wouldn't bother me but Glamis is like a maths teacher mispronouncing Descartes or Pythagoras!

To be honest, yes, I would've thought so.

Macbeth is a standard English-lesson Shakespeare play.

I thought it was more glarms than glamz.

Too right random, it's showing an ignorance that would concern me if he/she was teaching English to my children.

YANBU - the teacher should know how it's pronounced.

Yanbu

I'm a senior member of staff in a challenging school, and very experienced English teacher, with great results every year (if I do say so myself). I didn't know the pronunciation. Unlike the OP, however, I believe in growth mindsets. We should all still be learning in both subject knowledge and pedagogy. So obviously, now I know.

I've only seen Macbeth twice, and never taught it. Yeah, if I was teaching it I might work the pronunciation out from the metre, I might watch some parts of an adaptation and hear it. But this pales into total insignificance with what I do know about how to teach children about Shakespeare, or any other aspect of English. Which is far, far more important for the children I serve than knowing the pronunciation of one word.