How do you pronounce "Edinburgh"?

This. I’m from the US but listen to a lot of BBC Radio podcasts, etc.

I said, “Edinbruh,” because that’s how I said it as I opened the thread. But in real life I often forget and say, “Edinburra,” and if I’m reading it, I might just think, “Edinburg,” or something, if I think about the pronunciation at all.

Ed’n’burra - From Ireland

Same. The other option elided the wrong vowel, edinburrow is a lot closer, but not precisely right.

Canadian of Scots descent.

Ed-in-burg, like iceberg and Pittsburgh. Because screw you, that’s why. I also pronounce “Worcestershire” as wurr-chester-shire, or at best as wershtisure. Same reason.

Me, too.

American. I’d probably say “edenburg.” I’ve heard of this Edinburruh/oh place many times but until those people learn to spell their place names I refuse to play. :slight_smile: The New England area of the US is just as bad.

I’m American and this is how I learned to pronounce it when my brother lived there.

Correctly.

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.

All this time I thought it was Ed-in-burg

It does look that way. But most British town names that end -burgh or -borough are pronounced something like “burra”.

Embra or Edinbura depending to whom I am speaking. (West Coast Scots vs everyone else)

This, I didn’t know.

This is the closest to how I pronounce it. From USA, have been to Edinburgh.

Since I’ve primarily seen it in print and not heard it, my brain pronounces it as “ed-in-berg”

See, I don’t say Ed’nbruh, but Edd’nburr. I guess there might be a slight uh at the end.

From the US and I also say Edd’nburr.

The street with that name in my neighborhood in North Carolina was “Edinberg” - The city in Scotland was always “Edinburra” to me.

You have to keep in mind that some people in the US go out of their way to pronounce Europen things as American as they can. Which is why Versailles in Kentucky is pronounced ‘ver-sales’

Yep. Despite what certain, possibly mythical, Australians think, Loughborough is not pronounced “LoogaBurrooga”.