dumb question - Keelaghan

Subject: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:28 PM

This is a dumb question, one that I am embarrased to ask.

After playing his music for a number of years, someone said that I am not pronouncing James Keelaghan properly. I've been saying "Keel-ah-han", with the "g" silent.   How far off have I've been?

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: DebC
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:31 PM

That's the way I have always pronounced it, Ron, and no one ever has corrected me.

Deb

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:44 PM

JAMES KEELAGHAN (pronounced without the "g") (info from here).

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: Peace
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:48 PM

Kee-la-han.

Met James years back and that is how he pronounces it. Figure he ought to know.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:52 PM

Thanks. I feel better, someone gave me a very odd pronuciation with the "g" that did not seem right.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: Peace
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:55 PM

T'weren't. Yours t'were, Ron.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 08:09 PM

I'd have thought it would be the same way you'd pronounce County Monaghan - no "g" but not exactly a strait "h" either", more the sound you have in Lough. But that's just a guess, and after all, he's not Irish.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 08:57 PM

However it is pronounced, he is one heck of a muscian/writer and a nice guy, to boot. I, too, have had the oppertunity to meet him a couple of times, and the pronunciation in the first comment above seems to be correct.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 07:52 AM

The person who corrected you has no understanding of Irish/Scots Gaelic pronounciation. You are correct in the way you are pronouncing it.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: black walnut
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 08:41 AM

We Kun-aid-ee-uns love our Key-la-han, eh?
Reminds me of how many times I've heard people mispronounce Cockburn.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: dumb question - Keelaghan
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 09:46 AM

Maybe they weren't talking about Bruce, bw.