I’d love to chat but I’m off down the gim to do some training!
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If you were Welsh, it’d be Gorithla, more or less.
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Um, not the Welsh I learned. If his name was Goriddla, he’d be “Gorithla” in Welsh. The letter “ll” is not a syllable found in English, being a voiceless lateral fricative, IPA ɬ (my father was born in Llanelli, the name of which town my mother, being Scottish, cannot pronounce to this day).
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
Amusingly, my real first name is a Welsh spelling of a name reasonably common in its English form 
Combined with a very non-Welsh surname, I’m one of those people who can get any username or email address they want without tagging on a load of extra characters.
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Perhaps you and I should compare notes one day. I am in precisely the same situation.
[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
With respect to McKie , it’s a sept of Mackay, so traces back to Mac Aoidh,
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There’s a Mackay street in downtown Montreal - it was years before I learned that when people were referring to “Mack-I” street, it was the one I’d been thinking of as “Ma-K”.
I got over it.
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain]
That may be so, but Jurdan’s a common enough pronunciation of Jordan, in the South. I don’t have any idea why.
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It is? I’ve never heard Jordan pronounced in any way other than how the country’s name is pronounced and have lived all but two years in the South.
[QUOTE=Aesiron]
It is? I’ve never heard Jordan pronounced in any way other than how the country’s name is pronounced and have lived all but two years in the South.
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One of Jimmy Carter’s top aides was Hamilton Jordan, pronounced like “Jurdan.”