Growing up I used to cringe hearing my name pronounced Ter-rell.  We always said it as a
single
syllable.  It wasn't  until I starting doing some research and speaking with other Terrells that I
found
that the English spelling, Tyrrell was, indeed, pronounced Ti-rel.  I suspect that 50 years of
exposure
to homogenized media and midwestern flat accents may have affected much of our memory
of
regional American accents and pronunciations.
Bruce Ti-rel

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Date: Sunday, January 7, 2007 9:24 am
Subject: OLD PRONUNCIATIONS OF NAMES

> I don't know if you folks realize it but one can subscribe for
> about $50.00
> per year to the William & Mary Quarterly Online and it is downright
> fun!Almost every, if not all, issue of the Quarterly is on there
> and there are
> some fascinating articles from the days when the Quarterly did a
> lot of
> genealogical work. One of the issues has an article on the old
> pronunciations of Virginia names and that is like a trip down
> memory lane! I
> live in York County but I grew up in Warwick County which was and
> shouldstill be pronounced "Warrick" but newcomers (who seem to be
> everywhere now)
> insist on saying, "Wor-WICK", which is an abomination to my ears.
> Old timers
> in Yorktown and York County pronounce "York" like "Yawk". A few
> years ago I
> was visiting in Yorkshire England and I was tickled to hear those
> peoplepronounce the word "yawk". Another word that Yorkshire people
> say  the way I
> remember it being pronounced when I was growing up was "chimney".
> They say
> "chimley" which is how I said it until I went to school and was
> taught to
> say it the way it is spelled. Recently I was visiting in Lynchburg
> and heard
> a man say "Charlottesville" like "Shaw-vul". And he wasn't even
> very old!
> Baby-boomer vintage.
> Some of the names listed in the Quarterly comparing names with
> pronunciationare:
> Spelt:
> ARMISTEAD pronounced UMSTEAD
> BERKELEY.......................BARKLEY or BARTLETT
> BERNARD.........................BARNETT
> BROCKENBROUGH........BROKENBUROUGH
> BLOUNT........................... BLUNT
> BURWELL.........................BURRELL
> BOOTH..............................BOWTHE
> CALLOWHILL..................CARROLL
> CHAMBERLAINE.............CHAUMBERLIN
> CHISMAN.........................CHEESEMAN
> CRENSHAW......................GRAINGER
> DEGGE or DEGGES...........DIGGS
> DREWRY............................DRUITT
> ENROUGHTY.................... DARBY
> FARRAR-FERRER..............FARR
> FAUNTLEROY...................FANTILROY
> FONTAINE,,.......................FOUNTIN
> FULGHAM..........................FULLJUM
> GEDDY................................GADDY
> GILLIAM.............................GILLAM
> GOODWIN..........................GOODIN
> GOOCH...............................GOUGE
> HAIRSTON..........................HARSTON
> HEYWARD..........................HOWARD
> HAUGHTON-HAWTHORNE........................HORTON
> HARWOOD.........................HAROD
> IRONMONGER...................MONGER
> JAMES..................................JEEMES
> LANGHORNE......................LANGON
> LEIGH...................................LEE
> MALLICOTE.......................MALICUT
> MAURY...............................MURRY
> MICHEAUX.........................MISHER
> MONTFORD-MUNFORD...MUMFORD
> PATRICK.............................PARTRICK
> RANDOLPH.........................RANDALL
> SEWELL-SEAWELL............SOWEL
> TALIAFERRO......................TOLIVER
>
> That's a few listed.
> When I send this to the List I don't know what format it will come
> throughas but I did my best to line everything up clearly.
>
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