Quote: keewik @ July 13 2011, 10:20 PM BSTYou truly don't know the difference between 'ock' and 'och'?
The bastards are still doing it by the way - every bloody news reader and David Milliband. It's a conspiracy to drive me mad(der).
I thought you were talking about the spelling, do you mean you can hear a difference when they say it??
Quote: EllieJP @ July 12 2011, 9:49 PM BSTDoing the late shift at work. 13 hours now.
I've done 2 seven hour shifts today. Started at 6 this morning, break of half an hour travelling from one station to another and finished around 8.20. Still what pisses me off is getting just three shifts this week.
Quote: zooo @ July 13 2011, 10:23 PM BSTI thought you were talking about the spelling, do you mean you can hear a difference when they say it??
Omigod, I don't believe you don't all know the difference. And don't tell me you pronounce it 'SassenacK'!
There's no difference.
Surely you don't go around pronouncing Murdoch with a 'ch' at the end like in chair, do you?
You big mental.
I pronounce it Murdouche.
No, not as in chair. It's totally different. Think of the word 'loch' as in a big watery place. It's a Scottish word and not pronounced 'lock'. Without actually having you here for a lesson, I don't know how to describe it. You'll both have to come to Scotland to learn the pronunciation.
What we need is a smiley between and 
Cos can look a bit sarcastic but to be honest I didn't find that funny enough to warrant a
Quote: keewik @ July 13 2011, 10:34 PM BSTNo, not as in chair. It's totally different. Think of the word 'loch' as in a big watery place. It's a Scottish word and not pronounced 'lock'. Without actually having you here for a lesson, I don't know how to describe it. You'll both have to come to Scotland to learn the pronunciation.
Oh, I sort of know what you mean now.
We're not taking pronunciation lessons from a Jock.
Ha, but you have to if it's Scots - a foreign language. 
Quote: keewik @ July 13 2011, 10:55 PM BSTHa, but you have to if it's Scots - a foreign language.
I don't think we're really being sarky. We really don't know the difference. Is it supposed to be that phlegmy sound?
Of course the man himself is Australian/American so probably does pronounce it Murdock anyway!
Quote: Chappers @ July 13 2011, 10:59 PM BSTI don't think we're really being sarky. We really don't know the difference. Is it supposed to be that phlegmy sound?
I think so, as if you are clearing phlegm from the back of the throat
