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Every year in the month of August Edinburg hosts the world famous Fringe Festival. I've always thought this was a comedy / performance art event.

I've just found out that Rob Words (who is featured regularly in AUE)
will present a show (talk?) at the Fringe. I'm lost for words <smile>.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY
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On 11/08/2026 07:54, occam wrote:

Every year in the month of August Edinburg hosts the world famous Fringe Festival. I've always thought this was a comedy / performance art event.

I've just found out that Rob Words (who is featured regularly in AUE)
will present a show (talk?) at the Fringe. I'm lost for words <smile>.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.
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John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> posted:

On 11/08/2026 07:54, occam wrote:

Every year in the month of August Edinburg hosts the world famous Fringe Festival. I've always thought this was a comedy / performance art event.

I've just found out that Rob Words (who is featured regularly in AUE)
will present a show (talk?) at the Fringe. I'm lost for words <smile>.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

I was amazed that Occam wrote that, and thought that even in darkest Luxemburg he would know what Scotland's capital is called. I wondered if it was some sort of obscure joke.

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

It depends on who is pronouncing it. I say Edinbr+O /'ed+-nbr+O/, where +O is a
schwa, in ordinary conversation, or Edinb+Or+O /'ed+-nb+Or+O/ if I want to be more
formal.
--
athel

Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada
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In article <ne02ntFcc8dU1@mid.individual.net>,
John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

-- Richard
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athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> posted:

On 11/08/2026 07:54, occam wrote:

Every year in the month of August Edinburg hosts the world famous Fringe Festival. I've always thought this was a comedy / performance art event. I've just found out that Rob Words (who is featured regularly in AUE) will present a show (talk?) at the Fringe. I'm lost for words <smile>. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

I was amazed that Occam wrote that, and thought that even in darkest Luxemburg he would know what Scotland's capital is called. I wondered
if it was some sort of obscure joke.

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

Where I live, it gets pronounced "Ay-din-boorg". It took me some while
to stop trying to correct people. If they're wrong pronouncing it thus,
then the entire English speaking world is even worse pronouncing
N|+rnberg as "Nyoor-m-b'rg".

It depends on who is pronouncing it. I say Edinbr+O /'ed+-nbr+O/, where +O
is a schwa, in ordinary conversation, or Edinb+Or+O /'ed+-nb+Or+O/ if I want to be more formal.
--
athel

--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Ar an t-aon|| l|i d|-ag de m|! L||nasa, scr|!obh Richard Tobin:

In article <ne02ntFcc8dU1@mid.individual.net>,
John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

So, E+ambra, with tashdid. (IrCOve put the tashdid after the <E>, where semantically it should be after the <m>; wonder is there a way to force Unicode to put an RTL diacritic above a preceding LTR character.)
--
rCyAs I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stoutrCO
(C. Moore)
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Le 11/08/2026 |a 10:41, Richard Tobin a |-crit :

John Armstrong wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

"Edinbrugh" for me - when it's not Auld Reekie.

Ah wis never any gud at the phonetic alphabet, but if you click on the
little UK speaker here - like that: <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edinburgh>

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Le 11/08/2026 |a 11:52, Hibou a |-crit :

Le 11/08/2026 |a 10:41, Richard Tobin a |-crit :

John Armstrong-a wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

"Edinbrugh" for me - when it's not Auld Reekie.

Ah wis never any gud at the phonetic alphabet, but if you click on the little UK speaker here - like that: <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edinburgh>

Which reminds me of:

"But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of the vilest
climates under heaven. She is liable to be beaten upon by all the winds
that blow, to be drenched with rain, to be buried in cold sea fogs out
of the east, and powdered with the snow as it comes flying southward
from the Highland hills. The weather is raw and boisterous in winter,
shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory
in the spring. The delicate die early, and I, as a survivor, among
bleak winds and plumping rain, have been sometimes tempted to envy them
their fate. For all who love shelter and the blessings of the sun, who
hate dark weather and perpetual tilting against squalls, there could
scarcely be found a more unhomely and harassing place of residence" - Stevenson, 'Edinburgh - Picturesque Notes', 1903.

Global warming has made it a little less bleak - and the authorities
have reworked Waverley Steps, taming the boisterous wind that loved to
play with skirts and kilts - people are soft these days! Come to think
of it, the weather is still shifty and ungenial in 'summer' (rO-Always
look on the bright side of life.rO-)

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Le 11/08/2026 |a 11:36, Alan Mackenzie a |-crit :

Where I live, it gets pronounced "Ay-din-boorg". It took me some while
to stop trying to correct people. If they're wrong pronouncing it thus,
then the entire English speaking world is even worse pronouncing
N|+rnberg as "Nyoor-m-b'rg".

I think we must be allowed to tailor names to our language, and extend
the same privilege to foreigners. Should we pronounce 'Paris' the French
way, say 'Deutschland' not 'Germany', call China 'Zh+inggu||'?

Plaster of Paree? Perhaps not.

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:52:51 +0100
Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

Le 11/08/2026 a 10:41, Richard Tobin a ocrit :

John Armstrong wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

"Edinbrugh" for me - when it's not Auld Reekie.

Ah wis never any gud at the phonetic alphabet, but if you click on the little UK speaker here - like that: <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edinburgh>

It was easier when it was Caeredin! </antigael grudge from a few
centuries back>
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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On 11/08/2026 11:41, Richard Tobin wrote:

In article <ne02ntFcc8dU1@mid.individual.net>,
John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

It's "Edinburgh", not "Edinburg".

And it's pronounced "Edinburru". Two short "u"s, as in duck, or luck.

"Embra", with a long m.

<smile>. A long 'm' and a few 'r's.
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