These are 20 of the hardest place names in Scotland to pronounce
By Rhona Shennan
Published 17th Oct 2019, 13:12 GMT
Do you know how to pronounce these places correctly?
Scottish spellings don’t always make a lot of sense. As every local will know, Scotland has its fair share of places many people struggle to pronounce.
Do you know how to correctly pronounce all these places?
While native Scots won't struggle with the pronunciation of our capital, we've heard it be butchered by many tourists. It's not Eden-bourg, it's not Edin-boro, it's Edin-bruh
A classic victim of mispronunciation, this place is not pronounced phonetically but instead Mull-guy
While the spelling may trick you into thinking this place is pronounced Ab-er-door, it's actually pronounced Ab-er-dow-er
If you thought this would be an easy place to pronounce, you'd be wrong - the correct way to say Hawick is like Hoy-ik
The inclusion of "ch" may throw some people off, the correct pronunciation is Eck-el-feck-han
The inclusion of the word "bright" at the end of this place name is enough to confuse people, it's actually pronounced Kir-coo-bray
Some people might be tricked into thinking this word holds three syllables - Strath-hay-ven, but in actuality it's a two syllable word: Stray-ven
While no one should struggle with the pronunciation of Bay, people tend to struggle with the Wemyss part. It's actually said like "Weems".
Aw-ken-shuggle is how you should pronounce this place if you want to sound like a local
