The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74367 Message #1298018
Posted By: PoppaGator
15-Oct-04 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Leave Us Our Glens (G Donald, B Hardie)
Subject: RE: A Song about the 'Glens' (whiskey)
The earlier posting of lyrics, with all the misspellings, might have been easier to read phonetically. For example, I know how to pronounce "Cointreau," but if I didn't, I would find it easier to learn the correct pronunciation by reading "Quantro."
If I *knew* how to pronounce all those various "glens," I could make a better judgement about how effectively the misspellings might have provided useful phonetic representations of the names.
For those of us who are neither Scots nor connosseurs of Scotch, the pronunciation of many of these whiskys can be quite problematic. (Laphroaig?)