How can you rationalize calling it "Edinborough" when you spell it Edinburgh?

Question

Obviously, somebody got confused and refused to admit it, and now everybody is stuck repeating the same mistake. That's what happens when you have a monarchy, isn't it?

Answer 1

eh that how yi pronounce it, nane ay this southern tongue!

Answer 2

Who was responsible for spelling Middlesbrough wrong?

How come all the townsfolk didn't notice it had an o missing?

Answer 3

I dinna see what the monarchy has tae do wi' it, laddie.  (grabs throat, wheezes)  Enough with my so-called Scots accent.

Have you ever seen this sentence?  The tough coughed as he ploughed the dough.  All of those -ough words sound different.  Blame it on those who 1st wrote in English & Scots English, or Caxton, even, who was one of the 1st to try & standardize (mostly using London accents) English.

Answer 4

It comes from an Old English word (remember Edinburgh was once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria) which meant "fortified place".  It was pronounced with a guttural sound at the end - something like "boor-h" -  and in the attempt to represent this it was spelt in various ways, e.g. "burh", "burg", "burge" and "byrig".  It crops up as a placename element with different pronunciations and spellings: e.g. Peterborough, Banbury, Berrington, Broughton, Aldeburgh, Berry Pomeroy and many, many other English and Scottish place names include this element.

In southern Scotland there are a string of place names ending in this element in which it is written "burgh" (which is close to the original spelling) and pronounced "burra", which is the local take on the sound. Dryburgh, Roxburgh, Jedburgh and Edinburgh are examples.

Answer 5

Nay be speculating boot the proper pronunciations of a proper language, lad.

tis the tyranny of the language of the bloody Englishmen that mis spells it.

Answer 6

Lol...Im guessing the same numbskull who inserted extra vowels into every flaming word, as well as breaking most of the spelling rules that they themselves set!! (i before e except after c...geesh...just leave the freakin i out!!)

As for somebody confused?? Just get us Aussies over there...we have no freakin idea...Edinburgh?? Sorry, the GPS doesnt know where Edinborough is!! LMAO!!

Answer 7

Learn to read properly.

Answer 8

Because its just the way its pronounced. A lot of words are not pronounced exactly as they are spelled or spelled exactly as they are pronounced, but you don't see anyone trying to rationalize or justify all those words cause it would take all day....what's the point?...just take it like it is.

Answer 9

is the monarchy the reason people say  "pitsa" then they mean pizza?

or twenny when they mean "twenty"

I guess the quen is resonsible for the rain we are having this weekend--she should have orderd it on the week days

Answer 10

you say it edin-bruh. not edinborough.