Glamis

Bruce Dykes bkd at GRAPHNET.COM
Fri Oct 8 09:38:59 UTC 1999


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kelly <kelly at BARD.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Glamis


>the only pronunciation (other than the spelling-pronunciation you mention)
>I've heard is /gla:mz/, one syllable.  I've heard it often, from Scots and
>older English folk.  But nowadays you hear Fotheringay just as spelled,


I think it was The Prisoner episode "The Chimes of Big Ben" where I heard
Fotheringay pronounced as spelled...that sets it back to 1968 or '69...

The one that threw me most recently is Dalziell (from Dalziell and Pascoe,
imported by A&E), which, near as I can tell is dee-ell.

bkd



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