# How do you pronounce "Edinburgh"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 23, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070 "2012-06-23T13:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/61 "2012-06-25T08:11:25Z")
Another American who says it “Ed’n’burra”. I got this pronunciation from my wife, who grew up in California but spent several summers in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/62 "2012-06-25T11:21:03Z")
Having been born here and lived most of my life here, I’ll vote for Ed’n’burra as well… ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/63 "2012-06-25T13:47:37Z")
I sometimes pronounce it ‘Ed’n’burra’ but only because my home town ends in ‘borough’ and I forget Edinburgh is spelt differently. When I think about it I pronounce it ‘Ed’n’bruh’ though. UK, not Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/64 "2012-06-25T15:01:23Z")
[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltPRylj93g) is how one pronounces it if one is from Kirkwall, in Orkney. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/65 "2012-06-25T17:35:51Z")
> [@Candyman74](#): > > I assume these are American Scarboroughs and Peterboroughs from that, not the English ones? Canadian. I don’t live far from Sunspace (and lived in Peterborough for a while). Scarborough’s a part of Toronto, Peterborough’s about 2 hours away. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/66 "2012-06-25T18:57:48Z")
Ed’nbrra I’m English but I’ve lived in Edinburgh seven years now. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/67 "2012-06-25T19:19:03Z")
Midwesterner and my first instinct was Ed-in-berg. Then I remembered, “This is one of those names that doesn’t sound like its spelled just like Monty Python’s Throat Warbler Mangrove complained about!” Once I remembered, I came close, but for some reason I thought it was a long E, eed-in-burra. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/68 "2012-06-25T20:47:08Z")
I notice a number of people say “Edinburra” - but isn’t that the same as “Edinbruh” if you put any sort of roll on the R? And how about “Edinberg”? I remember the doorman of the House of Representatives introducing the Duke (no, not John Wayne) that way once. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/69 "2012-06-25T20:56:09Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I notice a number of people say “Edinburra” - but isn’t that the same as “Edinbruh” if you put any sort of roll on the R? > > And how about “Edinberg”? I remember the doorman of the House of Representatives introducing the Duke (no, not John Wayne) that way once. I thought I clarified a couple of times. Yes, the poll was a bit poor; I meant it to be the one or two syllables on the burgh. As for “berg” - never even occurred to me. I’d never heard anyone say it. One can argue for one or two syllables, but “berg” is definitely wrong and weird. That’s definitely not how the city’s name is pronounced. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070/70 "2012-06-25T21:17:46Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Yeah. When I lived in the US, I used to refer to the state of “Mary-land”. I got fed up with locals laughing at me. Merrilind it is, then. Were you in Balmer Merilin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-edinburgh/626070.md?page=3)