The other night, a friend and I had a… debate… over the pronunciation of “Glenmorangie”. Is it like “glen MORE an gee” or “glen MORE an jee”? Or maybe even “glen MERANGUE gee”, like the pie? We didn’t fall to fisticuffs over it — there was a lady present, and we didn’t want to offend her sensibilities and make idiots of ourselves doing it. Actually she changed the subject quickly to something more sensible, like beer.
This debate has raged among family and friends for years, turning the “gee” faction against the “jee” faction. After calling it “glen MORE an jee” for years, I heard more than one person who should have been in-the-know call it “glen MORE an gee”, so I converted from the “jee” camp to the “gee” camp.
Today I went to the all-knowing prophet, Google, to settle the debate. At www.Glenmorangie.com, I discovered the truth. The one, true pronunciation, right from the source, is this: “It rhymes with ‘orangie’.”
Next, have I been mispronouncing “Glendronach“?