I'm from Missouri, and we spell our Cahill like K Hill. You'd almost think
it was two separate words. I descend from John Patrick Cahill (1833 - 1900)
and Elizabeth Seward, 1838 - 1914, Lawrence Welchian Cahill (1864 - 1950)
and Lillie Jane Cross (1863 - 1956), Raymond Patrick Cahill (1901 - 1989)
and Cora Irene Key (1900 - 1999), then me, Pattie Jo Cahill. As you can
tell most of our family lives long lives and tends to have children late in
life. I'm no exception as there are almost 21 years difference between my
two girls.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy\John" <arnola(a)yhti.net>
To: <CAHILL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CAHILL] Re: Cahill's in New Jersey
There are those in my line that pronounce the CAHILL name as
"kuh-hill"
(kuh like duh) and the first syllable emphasized. They are from Missouri.
AMY
ClanGeah(a)aol.com wrote:
>I laughed at the pronouciation protocol. When I was growing up the old
ones
>declared new arrivals from Ireland pronounced it CAH-HEEL and
got
disgusted at
>the Americanization pronounciation CAY-HILL. LOL Heck we are all
still
just
>a clan of very stubborn, charming, fierce-in-battle folks. here
is a
>thought...could there be different pronounciations in different parts of
Ireland? In
>America we have many distinct dialects or drawls...Southern,
Texan,
>Californian, Down East---Maine, New England, Virginian...I can even
distinguish
between
>West Virginia/Kentucky and Georgia/Alabama &Tennessee. just
a
thought......
>claudia
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