how do you pronounce "gaughan"?
Chris Conway
I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
music, either way!)
Ian Anderson
Any statement including the words 'Gaughan' and 'pronunciation' uttered
south of the border is likely to result in fisticuffs ;-) Over to you,
Dick?
Ian Anderson
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Dick Gaughan
In article <85500554...@cisaj93.demon.co.uk>, Ian Anderson
<fro...@cityscape.co.uk> writes
>Chris Conway <u0...@uvvm.uvic.ca> wrote:
>>I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
>>hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
>>music, either way!)
>
>Any statement including the words 'Gaughan' and 'pronunciation' uttered
>south of the border is likely to result in fisticuffs ;-) Over to you,
>Dick?
No thanks, I just put one out ...
I missed the original post (let's hear it for demon.news) so I'll tag my
answer here, thank you Ian :)
Of course (obligatory Usenet disclaimer) this is only my opinion and
others may disagree but, although I have heard many weird and wonderful
pronunciations, I have always assumed it to be pronounced
"gaw - chan", with the accent on the first syllable and the "ch" being
the Scottish throat "ch", rather like a Dutch 'g' or a German "ch" or
blah blah <insert learned reference of choice> - exceedingly difficult
for someone English and well-nigh impossible for an American. I have
learned to answer to "gaw - gan".
Although to be absolutely accurate, it should actually be a Gaelic "gh"
which is a cross between a "g", a "y", a "ch" (Scots, again) and a bad-
tempered rottweiler.
Unless the person pronouncing it is Irish, in which case most of them
would pronounce it "gaw - han" and I suppose that's fair enough given
that it came from there originally.
But not if they're from Cork (pronounced "Kyark")'cause nobody can
understand a word they say there :)
I once spent a week there and none of them understood a word I said,
either. We communicated via pints of Murphy's and polkas.
I once knew an Italian who invariably refered to me as "dee go gan"
and when I was on the road with a certain Shetland fiddle player we were
once billed as Dick Goffin and Annie Bain - but don't *ever* tell him I
told you that one
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George Hawes
Ian Anderson <fro...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>Chris Conway <u0...@uvvm.uvic.ca> wrote:
>>I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
>>hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
>>music, either way!)
>Any statement including the words 'Gaughan' and 'pronunciation' uttered
>south of the border is likely to result in fisticuffs ;-) Over to you,
>Dick?
I thought it was pronounced 'genius'!
George
Abby Sale
On Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:07:35 -0700, Chris Conway <u0...@uvvm.uvic.ca>
wrote:
>I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
>hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
>music, either way!)
Both are acceptable, even preferred. I can tell you for fact that his
closest Scottish friends in Edinburgh pronounced it ga-hoon' whenever
possible.
I see in the Message Index of my news reader that Dick, himself, has
answered this oft-asked question. I have not yet read that message and I
heartily advise you to pay _no_ attention whatever to anything he may say
on the matter. After all, how often does he call himself?
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Craig Cockburn
Ann an sgriobhainn <85500554...@cisaj93.demon.co.uk>, sgriobh Ian
Anderson <fro...@cityscape.co.uk>
>Chris Conway <u0...@uvvm.uvic.ca> wrote:
>>I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
>>hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
>>music, either way!)
>
>south of the border is likely to result in fisticuffs ;-) Over to you,
>Dick?
>
first syllable rhymes with "loch"
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In article <OxAoNKAI...@dickalba.demon.co.uk>, Dick Gaughan
<di...@dickxxalba.demon.co.uk> writes:
>I once knew an Italian who invariably refered to me as "dee go gan"
>and when I was on the road with a certain Shetland fiddle player we were
>once billed as Dick Goffin and Annie Bain - but don't *ever* tell him I
>told you that one
How about, was it the same tour, "Cathy McConnell and the Boys of the
Laugh" or has that been telescoped?
John Moulden
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Colin Matheson
In article <85500554...@cisaj93.demon.co.uk> Ian Anderson <fro...@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>Chris Conway <u0...@uvvm.uvic.ca> wrote:
>>I've always thought dick gaughan's name was pronounced gaw-fin. Now I'm
>>hearing people pronounce it gaw-gan. Which is correct? (Wonderful
>>music, either way!)
>Any statement including the words 'Gaughan' and 'pronunciation' uttered
>south of the border is likely to result in fisticuffs ;-) Over to you,
>Dick?
Just in case Dick's busy, the answer is that neither is correct - the
second syllable starts with a voiceless velar fricative. If you don't
have a voiceless velar fricative in your dialect, then you can't say
"it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht", so you're no' awricht.
Colin
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Martin Barr
Gaughan is prononouced as "Goch-an" ; the "Goch" to rhyme with scottish "loch"
(gutteral "ch" - a bit harder than the "J" sound in spanish) and stressed on
the first syllable.
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