How do you pronounce "Shemagh"

[RAPPLEBY2000]

(attempting to stay well away from anything offensive)

When I went to Tunisia on holiday 89-ish, many many kids would try to sell stuff on the beach one of the items being the "cloth with head band"

they literally walked down the beaches shouting "Ali ba-ba"

Obviously just because it was an known English reference, they also shouted a few phrases from only fools and horses! like "Lovely jubbly"!

 

[Martyn]

She'mah

Like the first bit of shed and then Ma

Probably wrong

cheers,
Toddy

Yep, sha'mar

Pretty much the same in an English accent.

 

[Chinkapin]

Well, Rappley, I guess it is all pretty clear to you now!



Memo to self: You may safely say it anyway you want, no one knows for sure.

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

and I thought it was a dipper

 

[mikeob]

(attempting to stay well away from anything offensive)



Obviously just because it was an known English reference, they also shouted a few phrases from only fools and horses! like "Lovely jubbly"!

They are still doing it now

 

[dave53]

dave 53 i call mine a shem--aa it is black&white with little black skulls on it

 

[Toddy]

Mine's purple
I do have a turquoise and white scarf type one though for drying my hair.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[nickg]

Mines red & white - picked it up in the Oman in the 70's

Cheers
Nick

 

[John Fenna]

Old stile black and green - big and beautiful!

 

[Adze]

Personally I pronounce it "HAT"

Mine looks a lot like this:

...except mine's a bit cooler as it's black not brown.

Now I appreciate that Australian headgear made from Skippy's skin might be a little lacking in culture when compared with middle eastern stuff... I can, however, guarantee that it's a lot easier to pronounce

 

[Pict]

In the US we pronounce it "ban-Dan-a" but then again most of us are trailer-trash. Mac

 

[hertsboy]

Mine's olive and black. Often wear it in bed to keep my balding head warm - to SWMBO's disgust.

"You are so eccentric, wearing that ridiculous scarf again!" - her exact words. Made me chuckle aloud.

 

[Steve27752]

I call it a Dishdash.

You know as far back as i can remember and i am 50 now. I.ve always called it a Shemagh or Dish dash. from now on it's Shemagh

 

[Grayfox]

they literally walked down the beaches shouting "Ali ba-ba"

Many years ago while in Morrocco, wherever I went I heard the words Ali Ba Ba following me. Couldn't figure it out until one night in the Djemaa el Fna in Marrakesh a local tradesman explained that anyone with a beard remindeds them of Ali Ba Ba.

I wear a shemagh in preference to a hat. Round my neck, round my face or more usually as in my avatar.

By the way. Do you have to be a paying member to upload images?

 

[geoff88]

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Geoff

 

[Cooper90]

In Black Country spake its a Sha mar!