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!

And then there's Cockburn and Cockburnspath.

Footdee - fitty?

Tooch is correct for Tough I believe.

How are Cockburna and Cockburnspath pronounced then please - without the 'ck'?

I will offer Holm.

Co-burn and Co-burns path - so yes, a silent "ck"

Like the port (drink)

Another one: how would you pronounce "Cornwall Street" (a street in Glasgow)?

Had a colleague at work whose surname was Tough, pronounced Tooch Scottish ch, so I learnt that one then

Footdee = Fittee

There was a joke on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue a week or two back about the policeman who caught a robber and wrestled him all along Sauchiehall Street and down Dalhousie Street and onto Buccleuch Street before arresting him on Rose Street - when asked why he didn't arrest the robber on Sauchiehall Street the policeman said he had to get him to somewhere he could spell.

Ooh. Nivver heard o' Cornwall St in Glasgow! (Despite living in /glasgowshire)

It's a very short street now - cut off by either the A803 widening or the M80 (can't remember which). You sometimes get practical jokers ringing to Traffic News broadcasters warning on traffic jams in the street.

It's pronounced CornWALL Street.

Ooh! I must have led a sheltered life.

As a born & bred Fifer I can help out with some of these..

Kirkcaldy is pronounced Kirkcawdy

Kilconquhar is Kin-ucker

& purplefrog is right people from Auchtermuchty just call it Muchty as do people from the surrounding villages of Newburgh, Collessie & Lindores

I have Tough relations, family always pronounces it Tyooch (as in teuchter) but they are Doric speakers

Do the Fifers say Ainster for Anstruther?

Jeez! I'm as Scottish as a Scottish thing and I didn't know about half of these pronunciations! I did get the trumpet joke though 😂

As a "posh" non-Weegie (dh insists I'm not a Weegie because I'm from Bearsden/Milngavie ), dh had to teach me a lot of these.

I'd also never come across the word "coup" until I met him (sheltered life ) let alone known how to pronounce it.

It's not the sort of place a genteel young girl from Bearsden/Milngavie needed to go to - but somewhere a couple living in a tenement flat which needed periodic clearing (especially when trying to sell) needed to visit

MorrisZapp only people from NE Fife say Ainster instead of Anstruther I'd never heard it until I started working in Cupar

I was reading coup as "coo" (recent uprisings in Turkey etc) and till I realised you meant it to be pronounced "cowp".

....the confusion was deliberate

If it's not obvious even to Scots, pity the poor sassenachs!

Hmm - I say Kin-ucher for Kilconquhar.

And agree that Ainster is an alternative name for Anstruther, not the local pronunciation of the word. I think one derives from Gaelic, the other Scots.

If it's not obvious even to Scots, pity the poor sassenachs!

That's because I'd spell it cowp not coup :o

Interestingly, googling "council coup" brings up a link to my local authority recycling facilities, but/and "council cowp" gives me those of Edinburgh and Falkirk. Even more now lol!

Hmm, I'm originally from Edinburgh :o

www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/coup_n1

Interesting that that link said that the most common spelling was "coup" but that the most common pronunciation was "cowp"

Confused? You will be