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[Bob G]

Wow. O'Murchada is 'O'Murrukoo'?

That's even wilder than the fellow I met whose business card read 'Leonard Geauheaughean'. He challenged me to pronounce his last name, and when I SWAGged 'Go-hay-gun' his jaw dropped. Apparently, few folk were able to read his name correctly.

[Sio]

I didn't get that pronunciation either.  The missing apostrophe threw me off entirely.  I thought it was an H. Beam Piper-esque mixed dialect name, Gaelic first name and a Hindu last name or something.  Piper was famous for those, names like "Hideyoshi O'Shaunessy" and "Angus Shan-Yu N'Zume" would have been perfectly reasonable for one of his stories.

[Scott]

Actually it's supposed to be "o-MURR-uh-khoo," with the soft final k, but five centuries from now the k gets harder.

 

[Joey1058]

I'll plead ignorance.  I've been thinking like the beltape, "Oh-Mur-chad-ha".  I don't speak "gay-lick"  either.  LOL!

[Qsilv]

hmm...  clever... but I'm way more intrigued by her failing to include the honorific soon's he's rendered unconscious

[raven268]

Heee. Well, beats O'Colonies...

[Hans Rancke]

I didn't get that pronunciation either.  The missing apostrophe threw me off entirely.  I thought it was an H. Beam Piper-esque mixed dialect name, Gaelic first name and a Hindu last name or something.  Piper was famous for those, names like "Hideyoshi O'Shaunessy" and "Angus Shan-Yu N'Zume" would have been perfectly reasonable for one of his stories.

I use those sort of names myself when writing Traveller adventures. First I roll to establish the ethnicity of the personal name, then i roll to see if the family name is the same ethnicity. If not, I roll for the ethnicity of the falmily name randomly or semi-randomly.


Hans