Talk:Craigellachie, British Columbia

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Pronuncation[edit]

Well it made me laugh when I first heard it pronounced like that, anyway. Of course most Scots would expect it to be pronounced ending with Khee rather than He but I realise that that is difficult for most English speakers. Changing it to He or Kee is quite acceptable though (Unlike Tchee which will make us smile if we're being polite and ROFL if we're not). -- Derek Ross | Talk 09:56, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)

Well, prepare to laugh if you ever visit BC, because the typical pronunciation is nothing like the IPA overleaf - CRAIG-elLACHy. Not that that's how _I_ pronounce it, but even so I'm not sure that I've got it right if hte accent mark on the IPA is supposed to be for the first syllable; I accent the second. Is that right? -- wrote Skookum without signing

Yes, you should be accenting the second syllable, so that's right. IPA stress marks prefix the stressed syllable, so the IPA is indicating the second syllable. "Craigellachie" is basically an anglification of two Gaelic words, "Creag Eileachaidh" with "craig" meaning "crag" and "ellachie" meaning "of the rocky place". -- Derek Ross | Talk 04:58, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're right about the pronunciation in BC, the "lach" is accented, the IPA should be fixed by someone who knows what their doing with that stuff :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.6.65 (talk) 15:04, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Last Spike merger discussion[edit]

Oppose The Last Spike was an event/ this is a place that long-outlasted that one-day event. I hate mergists....Skookum1 07:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Because the Last Spike on any given railroad has more associations than just the town closest to the event or the railway that was completed by the act. It is by itself a notable historic achievement that involves individuals as well as towns and railways.CindyBo 11:22, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Oppose Craigellachie is also a post office, or was, and was a town of sorts during railway construction, hence the ghost towns cat I just added. It remains an "address" today also; a rural community; the Last Spike is a specific event that happened there, and has a story not directly suited to an article on the place. Not much of a place, but still a place, rather than an event.Skookum1 (talk) 22:08, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]