How good is your pronounciation?

I was at Lower Peover last week, it's got the only timber built church in Europe! It's beautiful

Surely Kirkcudbright is pronounced Kirckoobry. At least that's what it was when I was at school in Ayrshire which isn't too far from Galloway.

PS Wiki agrees with me so I must be right....

You must be right, anno, because you're a proper Scot and I'm only an improper one!

I like to think I'm and improper proper Scot, Bags. You're an honorary Scot whereas I am an exile and mother of two Englishmen.

Thank you Gnetters, for putting me right about Kirkcaldy. I`ve always said Kirkardy.

I'd have said Kirkcudbright as Kirkoobry and Kirkcaldy as somewhere between Kirkcahdy and Kirkco'ddy.

How about Milngarvie ?

Millguy!

I used to live near Walkden, Lancashire, which the locals pronounced as Wogden. Boltonians called people from Westhoughton cow yeds - the story being that a cow got its head stuck in a 5-bar gate and the owner was advised to use a saw so he cut off the cow's head. Does every country and region have another which it considers inferior and makes the butt of jokes?

Nightowl [like]! In Norfolk we say pluver or lapwing or more often that not peewit.

What about lichen? Is it lichen, lychen or liken?

Then there's Ravenstruther pronounced Renstrie or Kilncadzow pronounced Killcaygie.

Excellent poem, think I'll pinch it for the staff notice board. Some of my younger colleagues can only do text speak, so reading this will be a challenge.

I heard a fascinating programme on Radio 4 with a lichenologist (honestly) and she said 'liken'.

It's one of those words which can be pronounced either way. Like either!

anno, I'm an honorary Scot with two Scottish daughters who have English accents and another daughter who is about a third each of Irish, Welsh and English, but who has a Scottish accent. Are we confused? We are not

My grandfather used to say 'old station dog' and 'sparrow grass' for alsation and asparagus. And other similar mispronunciations. It was only years after his death that I realised these were not accidental but a deliberate play on words.

My dad used to say "cotton easters" for cotoneasters and "Chester" for chest of drawers. Lots of others too.

One of my colleagues who later became a landscape gardener thought cotoneasters really were cotton easters. He was dyslexic.

Has anyone else had a problem with their BT Internet? Our broadband goes off for about half a minute and things get lost in the ether or appear days later. A post I thought I put on this yesterday evening seems to have appeared this evening - can't remember checking if it was there, which isn't disastrous, but in the middle of transferring cash on line is really annoying!

Well done ,most,although it is a shame that now the cleverest are those that have the wherewithal and ability to "Look it up".
Dialect can be a major problem to the emergency services, particularly when large control rooms, centralised, and remote from the people they serve, often manned by people local to its location rather than to the area it serves, have to deal with calls from people with strong local dialects.Local centres with local people (does that sound like a rather black TV programme)? Are more able to pinpoint the locations and recognise the problems being reported.
I will be clever, as long as my batteries last.
I recall a Sci Fi story where the main computer on the space vehicle crashes.With limited time to plot a course and calculate re entry vectors, the multinational crew are up against it.Fortunately one of the crew has an abacus, and the ability to use it, the rest is history, as they say.Just a vignette apropos of nothing in particular (or is it)?

Greatnan I grew up near Westhoughton . we pronounced it West-owt'n. Yes I remember the reference to residents as 'cow yeds' -the pronunciation was more like 'ker yeds' -hard to convey in print.
I was always puzzled by Wogden for Walkden -I travelled through on my way to work in Salford -pronounced Solford!!