Aibu about how to pronounce loch

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Me and dh are having a disagreement about how to pronounce "loch" as in Loch Ness!

He goes all Scottish on that word and it sounds weird. It's like the ch sound in "Bach". He is a quarter Scottish but born and raised in Surrey!

I say it like "lock" because I'm English just like he is! I wouldn't say Paris or chorizo with a foreign accent.

This is light hearted but I'm right aren't I?

Is it "lock" or "loch with the ch bach sound"?

It's irrelevant who say lock because it's loch. Loch lomond. Loch Ness. Loch loch lock. Not bloody lock.

dotdotdotmustdash Kilquonchar, that'll be Kinucker eh? halo

Ding-ding...level up!

Next level: Culross

I'm the sort of person who pronounced "chorizo" and "croissant" the way they are said in Spanish and French respectively. I also use "panino" as the singular form of "panini".

Have I actually stumbled into an 8 page thread of English people arguing how a Scottish Gaelic word is pronounced?

Rhymes with Bach. He is right. A lock is in a canal!

He is right. A lock is in a canal!!

*Culross - easy peasy.

Coo-ross*

Not quite - more like Coo-rus.

"Have I actually stumbled into an 8 page thread of English people arguing how a Scottish Gaelic word is pronounced?"

Tha gu dearbh, agus tha gaidhlig agam... not enough to do the rest of this paragraph right enough, but enough to know that ch is a sound that's different from ck and still people keep disagreeing, lol

I am in Northern Ireland. Here we spell it 'lough' and we pronounce it 'loch' as in 'Bach'.

Have heard a BBC newsreader or traffic person more than once telling me about trouble on the road between "Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy" pronounce Glen-row-thes and Kirk-all-dee.

He's right. Pronunciation has nothing to do with accent on this one. You wouldn't pronounce Bach as "Back"

I got irrationally annoyed at an episode of Pointless recently where they had a round on homophones and one of the clues was "fastens or secures something; large body of water in Scotland" - Irish DH was all as I yelled "They're NOT homophones!!!" At the TV

Oops only read the first page - BreconBeBuggered I'm so glad I wasn't the only ragey one

Kirkcudbright. Kir-cu-bri.

BreconBeBuggered Loais will, from this day forth, forever be lay-oh-ess

lock

Not lock

wonko Well, I'm welsh personally, so not all of us are English!

"Well, I'm welsh personally, so not all of us are English!"

You weren't arguing that ck is right though...

And I'm American. There are a lot of place names in the US that outsiders get wrong. We have lots of fun listening to folks struggle with Kissimmee, a town in Florida near Disney. And then of course there is Maryland, which Americans pronounce like "Marilyn" but with a "d", but which British people want to call Mary-land.

We have an Inverness in Florida but the body of water that inspired its name is Tsala Apopka Lake, fed by the Withlacoochee River.

"There are a lot of place names in the US that outsiders get wrong."

Took me years to realise that arkensaw and Arkansas were not in fact two different places...

I always think Loch is pronounced like a liverpudlian would say look (loochhh!)

Not the 'o' bit - the chhhh bit.