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Offline Erin2012

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How do you pronounce Sligo?
« on: Monday 29 June 15 14:04 BST (UK) »
Is it Sligo rhymes with "big -oh" or Sligo rhymes "try-go"?
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Re: How do you pronounce Sligo?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 June 15 14:05 BST (UK) »
I've always pronounced it Sly-go

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Re: How do you pronounce Sligo?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 June 15 14:06 BST (UK) »
try-go
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Re: How do you pronounce Sligo?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 June 15 14:07 BST (UK) »
Ok thanks.. I wasnt sure.
Keane (Westmeath)
Ledwith (Longford/Westmeath)
Gray (Sligo)
Eustace (Louth)
Frost (Suffolk)
Farrar (Yorkshire)
La Favor/Lefebvre (Quebec)
Mineard/Maynard/Mainard/ Maynord (Wiltshire/Monmouthshire)


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Re: How do you pronounce Sligo?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 29 June 15 14:11 BST (UK) »
Sly, as in the fox.

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Re: How do you pronounce Sligo?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 29 June 15 15:34 BST (UK) »
They say it lots of times on this
http://youtu.be/Mrf7Z3kSeSo