It's Pollokshaws FFS P-O-L-L-O-K-SHAWS

[Its_a_gamp]

Personally I think it more of an annoyance for names to be pronounced wrongly rather than spelt wrongly. for example (and I hold my hands up to this one but I was only 12 at the time, and had only seen it written down) Miln-gavie 2 sylables sounded as seen

[Dave]

Well I think most folk outside of Milngavie pronounce it the way you did with a wee camp kick on it just to rip the pish on it's residents.

[BrigitDoon]

About right, Dave. I did Cambridge. Now I come to think of it, they didn't ask me to spell it, but it goes with the way things are that they'd find this stuff out.

Anyway, whoever's throwing stones on the part of Pollokshaws would do well to examine the state of the glazing in their greenhouse lest a breeze be blowing through.

[Vinny the Mackem]

I remember when I worked in Castlemilk for a few years and they were in the process of ripping out the old bus stops (that did pretty well in preventing rain falling on yer heid) to the new, open style stops. All the stops all the way along Aikenhead Road had the redundant "t" and had to be changed. Wonder how much that cost the council tax payer (as it is certainly a high possibility that the instruction to the printer of the signs had incorrect through numptiness at this end!!)

[scottwramsay]

Miln-gavie 2 sylables sounded as seen

Since we're taking time out to be pernickety shouldn't that have been 3 syllables? Miln-gav-ie? It seems to me that 2 syllables is the correct esoteric pronunciation - "Mil-guy".

[Its_a_gamp]

Miln-gavie 2 sylables sounded as seen

Since we're taking time out to be pernickety shouldn't that have been 3 syllables? Miln-gav-ie? It seems to me that 2 syllables is the correct esoteric pronunciation - "Mil-guy".

You are of course right, slap me for such a mistake, definitely has 3 syllables (miln-gav-ie, not deff-in-it-ly before the smart comments appear)and is as bad as spelling syllable with an L missing

[scottwramsay]

[scottland]

Hello My name is john I am new here,i live in pollokshaws,there is no c in pollok or pollokshaws,unless you are a cricketer.

[Its_a_gamp]

This is a pollock, it has no sea, it is not very happy either!

[scottland]

On a fish scale that was Carp which does have a C

[Peekay]

Hello My name is john I am new here,i live in pollokshaws,.

Nae luck...I know how you feel!

PK

[Rabbie]

This is a pollock, it has no sea, it is not very happy either!

Hmm, looks like a trevally of justice:(

[scottland]

This is a pollock, it has no sea, it is not very happy either!

That is some size of snake its lying on

[Dexter St. Clair]

I was two thirds of the way through Still Midnight by Denise Mina and enjoying the story and its description of life in various parts of the South side when I came upon "Pollockshields" printed twice in the paperback edition. Dave are you sub editing for McArthur & Company

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[Shazbat21]

Dexter wrote: I was two thirds of the way through Still Midnight by Denise Mina and enjoying the story and its description of life in various parts of the South side when I came upon "Pollockshields" printed twice in the paperback edition. Dave are you sub editing for McArthur & Company

I've just started reading Denise Mina's 'The Field of Blood', and quite enjoying the story apart from the jarring 'Steps', for Stepps, 'Salt Market' for Saltmarket and Rutherglen's Main Street referred to as the Main Street.