[Magdalen] Mispronunciation (was Re: List sibs departed from this life)

[Scott Knitter]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Roger Stokes
<roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Can you imagine the difficulty people had with Joan's surname - both
> pronouncing it when they read it and spelling it when they heard it?  Just
> to remind you it was McDonough.  McDonoghue was a familiar attempt at
> pronunciation while McDonner or McDonna were attempts at spelling it.

McDonner, pronounced your non-rhotic way, is roughly how McDonough
sounds, though, right? Or McDunner?

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA