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

[Wigeon]

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).

Glars-gow

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

Glahhsgow for RP me.

Rhymes with cat

yanbu - the first one

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

Definitely the 2nd one

Sorry not clear, Glarsgow

Glar-sc-go. I’m very RP.

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..

Anyone else say Glaz-go

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

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

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

I’m from the home counties.
i pronounce is Glars go

husband is from Scotland west coast and pronounces it Glas go

Neither really. No r sound at all - ahhh, like at the dentist, not arr like a pirate

Glahhhs-go

Slightly more emphasis on first syllable.

Glez-go according to the posh side of the family.

Lol at glarsgow Is the queen's English

It's glaz-go

It just is!

I say Glarzgo

Yes.

I'm English but from a long line of Glaswegians and I say it glass go

The RP accent has changed over time. In old black and white films, almost all vowels are an “e” sound (“cet” instead of “cat”). People say that I am posh and I would say the first one. However, the “arh” sound I think is more modern. I think the main character in “I Know Where I’m Going” travels via Glasgow to the highlands early on in the film. Perhaps look up on YouTube.

I mean it’s never come up but I would expect glarsgo like varse.

If they pronounce it Glarsgow in RP English then it's wrong.

They must hate Glesca though 🤣

Yep me too

But is that glass as in “glars” with a long “A” or (RP) or “glas” with a short “A” (northern accent)?!