De-Anglicisation of Names

[David Dubh]

My mum gets pissy when I tell her that I can't find any Scots background for her mum's maiden name Laird. Care too enlighten me? ps her maiden name is O'Brien

[slohairt]

My mum gets pissy when I tell her that I can't find any Scots background for her mum's maiden name Laird. Care too enlighten me? ps her maiden name is O'Brien

LAIRD From the Scots word laird, cognate with the English word 'lord'.

O'BRIEN This is Anglicised from Ó Briain (pronounced O BREE-UN), meaning 'descendant of Brian.' You may have noticed that Brian is actually pronounced BREE-UN, not BRY-AN. The vowel combination "ia" is always pronounced as "ee-uh" not "eye-uh".