Deuchars IPA - How do you pronounce it???

[TrikkiNikki5]

Dookars? Due cars?
Have found a pub with it on draft but by god it hard to ask for...suggestions?

[Quizmonster]

'Due' or 'd'you' as in the abbreviated question-form: 'D'you remember John Adamson?"...followed by 'ch' as it is pronounced in the Scottish word 'loch' or the German musician's name, 'Johann Sebastian Bach'...followed by 'ars' as in the last three letters of 'teachers' or 'bakers' etc.

[Quizmonster]

Wonderful beer, by the way, so well worth learning to say it properly. The name is Scottish, incidentally.

[TrikkiNikki5]

I love this beer

Been drinking it out of bottles for yonks and have only just found out that a pub near where I live sells it on draught.

I'm heading down t' pub later to try it but just wanted to get the name right...

Failing that, I'll just point!!

[Gef]

Pint of Jewchars please or, as you say just point.

Probably gets easier to say the more you have had to drink.

Enjoy, it's a really nice beer.

[Quizmonster]

The 'ch' is decidedly not pronounced as in 'chars'! I know most English people cannot say 'loch' properly, because that particular 'ch' sound does not exist in standard English. (They usually produce "Lock Lomond", for example.) Most other languages, though, do have the appropriate sound, including obviously the variety of English spoken in Scotland...especially if your name is 'Deuchar'!
If a three-year-old German can say 'hoch' for 'high' properly and a Welsh three-year-old can say 'bach' for 'mate' properly, surely a grown English person can have a stab at 'Deuchars'. It's not that they can't say the sound involved.

[chicklin]

I'd say jewcars

[Gef]

Sorry I was concentrating on the first syllable and forgot that a lot of folk might read the ch as in church. I'm English but having lived in Scotland for over 30 years I know the difference between lock and loch.

[Quizmonster]

So we're agreed, Gef...the opening syllable sounds like 'due' or 'd'you' or 'Jew' and the second syllable opens as 'ch' in loch (lake), Lachlan (male name), Bach (musician), Strachan (football manager) and so on...not as in 'church' or as in 'car'.