Getting increasingly annoyed by Scots who pronounce "ch" as "ck"

[Salmotrutta]

Yes, I know...in the grand scheme of things it's trivial.

But, it's intensely irritating to hear Scottish born and bred people talk about Auckterarder or Lock Lomond.

Just stop it! You're Scottish and you can say the "ch" sound!

Auckterarder

Galah - bold fail!!

How do you pronounce Loch Lomond? I'd have said Lock...

FFS

Gaah not "Galah"

I've never come across that one but can I dump a moan about mancunians saying 'hospiccle' and 'ikkle' in here while you're at it?

Loccchh with the throat clearing sound - forget the linguistic name for it.

I too can say the ch sound as a Gaelic (Irish) speaker but really unfortunately it does not come naturally to me when I am speaking English. I completely agree with you though because I love the way you Scots say Loch. You should all be making the effort because the rest of us love to hear it.

A Lock is a mechanism on a door or a canal.

A Loch is entirely different.

It's mostly younger Scots folk who I hear mispronouncing the "ch" in Scottish names/words.

It just makes me very angry - I need to get a life.

Thank god I'm back at school next week

I get annoyed when the soaps murder Auld Lang Syne on Hogmanay. It's not "old" and it's not "take"!!!

It's not 'for the sake of...' either.

I've always found 'sangwige' really irritating.

And it's not "Zyne"!

And it's not compulsory either. I bloody hate new year. Always have.

I say loch properly and I'm not even Scottish! Really no excuse for actual Scottish people.

I agree Alisvolatpropiis - and no it's not "Zyne"!

Plus, when on earth did "New Year's" become a thing.

It's either New Year's Eve or Hogmanay!

I agree with all the whinges justified observations of sloppy pronounciation

"ch" shouldn't be that difficult to pronounce for a Scot.

Not a pronounciation issue but I also get pissed off at people crossing their hands and jiggling up and down/in and out when singing "Auld Lang Syne".

I say Loch properly, but the correct spelling is actually lough. I'm from Northern Ireland

I also pronounce a local town to me properly... Spelt Ahoghill and pronounced Ahochill. It irritates me when people pronounce it Ahockill.

Euphemia - try her on hard ones like

Crianlarich
Bunnahabhain

Tulips I was about to write earlier about the Irish-Angelisication which probably ruined loch being Lough. The Irish spelling is Loch though.

Ds is made to repeat things correctly

He's also not allowed to say "I done it"

Agree with all the annoyances on this thread, and I've been thoroughly cheered up, after a shitty week so far, by Salmotrutta's angry autocorrects at the start of this thread!

There is always Harry Lauders phrase

it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht

or

It’s a dreich day!

No, the Irish spelling is lough. Pronounced same as Scottish loch.