[Sca-cooks] names, was colours of belts etc

[A F Murphy]

It's said Maura or Moira... those are the modern English spellings of
the name. Have no idea what the medieval pronunciation was.

I had a high school classmate named that, and we had one  teacher who
just couldn't get his mind around the idea that this wasn't the English
phonetic system... Called her "Mare" for two years. Last I knew, she was
in radio, so spelling wasn't an issue... *G* I hate to think what he did
two years later, when Siobhan got into his class! (Both these girls
 actually had Irish born parents... who didn't think these were
difficult names!)

My name in Irish would be Aine, which is pronounced "Awnya."

Anne

Daniel Myers wrote:

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> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 01:27 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
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>> Maire replied to me with:
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>>> Geez, Stefan, with a name like "Maire," I should *hope* so!!
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>>
>> Why? I didn't think "Maire" even without the multitude of other
>> spellings, was specifically Celtic. Hey, I can *pronounce it*.
>
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> Just pronounce it all wrong and then you'll be close.
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> Isn't it pronounced something like "Moya" there?
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