Glamis

Fri Oct 8 10:34:46 UTC 1999

When we were there, we heard the pronunciation glahmz (one syllable)
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From: William H. Smith <wh5mith at ATL.MINDSPRING.COM>
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Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:23 PM
Subject: Glamis


> Does anyone know the "correct" (i.e. Scottish) pronunciation of "Glamis"
(as
> in _Macbeth_)?  My sense is [glaemIs], but I have no idea why; the
spelling
> indicates [glemIs].  If my sense is correct, why is it?
> On a similar subject, what about the lax stressed vowel in words like
> "finish"?  Was it laxed because when borrowed the stress was on the second
> syllable (French "finisse") and thus laxed, and later anglicized?