Re: A question on pronunciation

["Edward R. Ewen, Jr." <tewen@gandalf.cs.wcu.edu>]

Poster: "Edward R. Ewen, Jr." <tewen@gandalf.cs.wcu.edu>

On a similar note,

When I joined the SCA I decided I wanted a Scot persona, and did some 
research.  Since I wanted to keep my mundane name (since it is a good 
Scots/English name indeed) I simply translated it into gaelic: Iomharr 
Eoghainn.  The amazing part is, I had a choice of names to use (as Eogan 
says) but I found that my first and last names were interchangable.

Thence:

 Edward: Son of Edward
   Ewen: Son of Edward

Well, since I am a junior, my name could be construed as:
  Son of Edward, Son of Edward, Son of Edward, Son of Edward

And my eldest boy is the III so he is
  Son of Edward, Son of Edward, Son of Edward, Son of Edward, Son of 
Edward, Son of Edward (I think)

My question is, who was the first Edward, and whose son _WAS_ he?

(Sorry, been one of those days)

Edward

On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU wrote:

> 
> Poster: mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU
> 
> When I first saw the name Eogan spelled, the pronunciation guide with it
> said that "eo" was pronounced as a "yo."  I assumed it was pronounced
> YO-gan, and that is what everyone calls me.  Alternate spellings of the
> name are Eoghan, and Eoghann (and probably tonns of others).  Eoghan
> MacAlpin told me of a source he read that gives the pronunciation as OWN.
> I didn't like the sound of that one bit, and still called myself YO-gan.
> This summer, I was fortunate enough to take a class in Scottish folklore
> from Dr. Margaret Bennet, formerly of the U of Edinburgh School of
> Scottish Studies, and a native Gaelic speaker.  She said that the "h"
> after the "g" in Eoghan cancelled the "g", and that the name was
> pronounced YO-an.  I told her that I have seen it spelled without the "h"
> and asked if that would affect the pronunciation.  She thought for a
> moment and said that she has heard a diminuative form of the name Eoghan
> where the "g" WAS pronounced and that the spelling without the "h"
> probably represents that.  So everybody still calls me YO-gan, although
> I'll answer to YO-an (and a few other things) as well.
> Considering all that, I remain,
> Eogan Og MacLaren
> 
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