Jennifer Carson (Unregistered Guest)
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 11:34 pm: |
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Could you please send me the pronunciation for the surname Loughnane, from Kerry. Thank you, Jennifer Carson |
Robert (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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I find it hard to give you an example as I dont know the phonetics required to tell you, nor do I suspect you would recognise the sounds -in fact even if you heard them they might be hard to repeat depending how how closly they approximate your habitual 'ear'. anyay, I'll try this: 'Lough' do the irish 'loch' then reduce it to 'lo', a sort of cross between a very short (in time) /@/ (ahhh as what the dentist asks you to say) and short /o/ 'nane' as in 'mane' of a horse, but with n at the beginning lo'nane by that reckoning then |
James_murphy
Member Username: James_murphy
Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 06:34 pm: |
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That -ane ending in a lot of names is usually pronounced 'an' (as in can) with the stress on that syllable eg. Spillane - spillAN not spillayne. I personally would pronounce that name LockNAN (stress on 2nd syllable). |