LL-L: "Place names" 12.JUN.2000 (02) [E/S]

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From: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Subject: LL-L: "Place names" 11.JUN.2000 (02) [LS]

> From: Sandy Fleemin [sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk]
> Subject: "Place names"
>
> Soondins A'm no shuir aboot is:
>
> Fyvie: A think we soond this wi the short diphthong ['f at ivI] in ma
> airt, but the SVLR wad suggest the lang diphthong ['fa:ivI], sae
what
> ane is't? It micht be that the soondin in ma airt is a fauss
analogy
> wi "Fife".

My recollection from Aberdeen days is more the "long": ['fa:ivI

> Garioch: A'v seen a sang in Herd's (1775) collection that rhymes
> "Garioch" wi "thouch", but A believe the modern soondin is ['gi:rI]
> ("geary")?

More like Gair-i[ch]
("Gair" as in "air", a very light [ch] as in "richt")

> Ythanside: hou is "Ythan" soondit?

"Y" like "eye" -- ['Ai:th at n]

Ted.
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