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).

Surely regional accents have been heard among BBC newsreaders for a long time now.

Yep. I was a uni there and I can assure you the Weegies would not allow the r!

That's the correct pronunciation.

Yes surprised to read some people would say glaaawhhzgo

Like not all 'a' words get that long drawn out treatment! Not in the uk though. But glaaaazgo sounds bonkers

I do but I'm Scottish.

Yanbu I have RP - glars as as in car - go

English, so gla like cat. Never heard it pronounced Glar...!

DH is Glaswegian and it’s Glazga or Glazgy depending on how drunk he is 😂

I think "foreigners" learn American English mostly.

Oh I don't know now. Maybe I DO put a very soft r sound in. (still not like a pirate though!) it's a long a (ahhh at the dentist), not a short a like in cat. And then a short s sound, not sss like in glass. Maybe it is a soft z.

Glahz-go? glarz-go? Somewhere between the 2 I think.

I have an undetermined 'southern' accent. Would be surprised if anyone could tell where I'm from, from hearing it.

Glarsgow for this RP speaker as well, though I always feel a little silly saying it like that.

I know I know, but people know what “BBC English” sounds like, even if actual BBC presenters do have a range of different accents.

Those confused it's like bath - RP - barth- with an r sound - northerners correct me if I'm wrong usually will say bath - a as in apple

First one. Gl-ar-s-gow.

If you're pronouncing it as anything other than Glazzzgo, you're pronouncing it wrong.

Oh. Except glesga

Glars-go. I'm definitely RP.

Proper posh people would say Glezgow I'd have thought, they really know how to mangle the English language

The bath barth thing I have heard..couldn't say it the second way without a struggle because of my Glasgow accent but I have absolutely heard my English friends say it

But i have never heard the same treatment applied to Glasgow.

Im from the NW and pronounce it glaz-go

Glars-go

Emphasis on glars

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I’m a native RP speaker, and I am also Scottish. (Call me a freak, you wouldn’t be the first.)

I say Glahz-go. There is absolutely, definitely no ‘r’ involved.

I say Glarz-go

DP is a native RP speaker and he pronounces Glasgow without the added r because that’s how the locals say it should be pronounced. Which means I, as a northerner, should pronounce Bath as Barth, but I just can’t. It feels so pretentious & wrong.

It's like plastic imo. Staying it with a long a just sounds ridiculous.