Pronunciations

[DWFII]

Don't know, but MacHinery is usually pronunced machinery.

Brian

I have no Gaelic...so I'm just commenting not disagreeing...but doesn't that violates one of the first principles of Gaelic--that ch is always pronounced as a hard c sound? And c is always pronounced like k. For that matter, I cannot think of another Macanything in which that final c is reduced to a sibilant.

[Dan R Porter]

Here is one I am guilty of, I hear lots of names here in Missouri pronounced "Muh" as in MuhGurk, Muhk Giver, and I also mispronounce it with an "i", wwhy this is I never realized it until this thread, I say "Mick Gurk, and 'Mick Naughton" wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?

[JSFMACLJR]

wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?

Ummmm, yes!

Sandford MacLean

[Jock Scot]

Here is one I am guilty of, I hear lots of names here in Missouri pronounced "Muh" as in MuhGurk, Muhk Giver, and I also mispronounce it with an "i", wwhy this is I never realized it until this thread, I say "Mick Gurk, and 'Mick Naughton" wow so I should ba saying Mac each time?

Yes!

[Dan R Porter]

Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?

[DWFII]

Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?

Yes! And MC Hammer is actually MackHammer.

[skauwt]

Mick-donalds is actually Mack-donalds?

if its mcdonalds the food chain then its Mick-donalds but for the surname it can be both Mick-donald and Mack-donald

[skauwt]

Yes! And MC Hammer is actually MackHammer.

and mc hammer is just ...Stanley Kirk Burrell

[heilanner]

the Mick/Mack depends on the spelling of the name, surely?

McDonald, McTavish, McMillan... all Micks

MacDonald, Macleod, MacDougal... all Macks


the one that gets a lot of people confused in the name Menzies. there's a newsagent shop called John Menzies and it's pronounced Men Zees.

but...

i have a customer at my work who is also called John Menzies and he pronounces it (as do most in this area) Ming-iss.

[JSFMACLJR]

the Mick/Mack depends on the spelling of the name, surely?

McDonald, McTavish, McMillan... all Micks

MacDonald, Macleod, MacDougal... all Macks
.

No, i doesn't matter if it is Mc or Mac. It is the same thing, and pronounced the same way.