How to drink from a Quaich?

[Tony Miles]

don't forget the no back washing and keep your beard out of it rules

[Bigkahuna]

don't forget the no back washing and keep your beard out of it rules

[Wolfhawk]

Uh, yuk !!!

[Deil the Yin]

Very interesting!

How is quaich pronounced? Thanks in advance!

I've heard two ways in my travels in Scotland...

1) "quake" - as in earthquake
2) "kwi" - with a long "i"

The former seems to be more prevalent.

I think it's rather like "Cake". Correct me if I'm wrong... I'm not a Gaelic-speaker, yet.

I'm sure it gets a wee bit different depending on where you go, but I've got set in my head "KWOCH," though I can see how some would say it more as "KWAYCH." I would check my Gaelic dictionary, but that never seems to help...

PS: I'm no native speaker, but I know for a fact that "ch" in Gaelic NEVER sounds like "K." Tis always as in Loch or Bach, which I know won't help for most Americans as we say them all with a hard "k" anyway... Oh well.

[RedLichtie]

It is pronounced as it's spelled - I can't really give a better phonetic example, kwaych perhaps.

The 'ch' is pronounced as in the Scottish pronunciation of Loch.

Just like this infact.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quaich

[Tony Miles]

nifty link for pronunciations
http://forvo.com/word/loch

[sputtyduke]

Very interesting!

How is quaich pronounced? Thanks in advance!

Where I live, we pronounce it "kwaish" a "qu" sound followed by a long "A" sound, and ended with a "SH" sound.

[george7]

The Quaich is used so that the drummers don't chug the good stuff.