Name of Highland village hailed as hardest to pronounce

Words come easy to describe this lovely part of the country - but pronouncing the name of this Highland village comes a little harder to many.

The Ballachulish Bridge which connects North Ballachulish to South Ballachulish. PIC: Flickr/Markus Trienke.

Ballachulish in the Highlands has been named as the second most difficult place name in the United Kingdom to pronounce - and the most difficult in Scotland to roll off the tongue.

The Highland village came second to Frome in Somerset in a list of the towns and villages that were most likely to be mispronounced, according to a team of linguists.

Ballachulish - pronounced Ba-la-hoolish - comes from the Gaelic Baile a’ chaolais which means “settlement on the strait”.