: Is there any reason for this beyond the fact that it's incorrect
: spelling/pronunciation? Or does it have something to do with
: "Football"?
Nope, it's just a general ingrained pissoffedness at people (particularly tourists) mispronouncing Edinburgh; also Glasgow (the "-ow" is like "show" not "cow") and, the cardinal error, referring to anywhere in Scotland, or indeed Scotland itself, as being "in England".
I live in Cheltenhamm just now, south-central England, and people do it to piss me off on purpose sometimes -- still, I weather it well, content with the knowledge that a large fraction of the population down here are very keen on a deep scottish accent :P
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