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Originally Posted by Acajack
I was thinking that anglos also have different ways of saying the same names.
For example, if I read M(a)cKay, it can rhyme with eye or it can rhyme with hay.
I generally default to "hay" because that's what seems most common in my part of the world.
In Ottawa you have a McKay (MacKay?) Street and also a lake by the same name that were named for a guy who had it rhyme with "eye", but everyone AFAIK makes it rhyme with "hay".
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I have a family member with the last name MacKay and everybody in Timmins says it the North American way. (rhymes with hay)
But in Timmins there was a MacKay Presbyterian church up until a few years ago which had been around since the founding the city and it was always pronounced the old Scottish way. (rhymes with eye)
I don't think I've heard anybody with that name pronounce it the Scottish way this millennium in Canada.
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