One of my best friends was a Terrell before she got married. She has some relationship through marriage to President Zachary Taylor. A cousin has a pair of his shoe buckles. Your family has quite a long history, there are many sources on the web, have you looked them up? Prominent and from London, I believe. There was a small foothill here in Orange County that was known as Terrell's Mountain. And in the early 1900s, I think it was, a ne'er do well Terrell fell asleep, caught his house on fire, which spread and nearly burned up the entire town of Orange. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Terrell wrote: > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [log in to unmask] > 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. >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >> instructionsat http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html