Pronunciation Of a Name

Sorry I'm not sure if that was the name of the documentary.

<< Featherstonehaugh ...ponounced correctly as "Fanshaw"!
Cholmondeley ..... "Chumley"
Beauchamp ..... "Beech-um"
Beaulieu ..... "B-yew-ley"
Buccleuch ..... Buck-loo

Some of them are obviously Ferench in origin but not pronounced in a French way at all... >>

Some common English surnames are spelled like the mispronunciation of the French names, such as Bewley and Beecham. "Buford" comes from "Beaufort." In South Carolina the town of Beaufort is pronounced like the name Buford (more like Byewferd).

DEBORAH:

I found out that there is a Beaufort Hunt in England...it's pronounced as "'Bow-fut". It is (or maybe now "was") a Hunt, meaning a pack of hounds and horsemen and women for the hunting of foxes. You know the scene...all red jackets, peaked caps and hunting horns, baying hounds, wildly barking dogs and poor wee foxes running for their lives across the pastureland. Oh..not forgetting the stirrup cup taken just before the whole lot charge off on their quest to cath their vulpine prey...a tot or two.

Officially, foxhunting has been illegal in Scotland for some time, and became illegal in England and Wales last February...BUT...the law is being broken hand over fist as many traditionalists see it as an infringement of a tradition that has existed for centuries. In the forthcoming General Election on 5 May the Government will suffer at the the polls in a lot of rural constituencies on this issue a alone.

A site on pronunciation of those kind of names I mentioned:

http://www.dicamillocompanion.com/LordW_Pronounce_copy(1).html

Damian,
You also might want to check out this site on British surnames with peculiar pronunciations.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/pronoun.html

Cool! Thanks Julian!

The surname STRACHAN is quite common in this area......it's usually pronounced "Strahn" with a long vowel.

DAMIAN (or anyone),

How is the name "Strathairn" (as in American actor David Strathairn) pronounced?

Also, how do they pronounce "scone" in Scotland? Does it rhyme with "lone" (as we say in the US), "done" or "gone"?

I meant to include this link, in case you don't know who David Straithairn is:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000657/

Damian - Strachan also reminds me of the surname "Mahoney" - Ma-on-ee