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[Surname] Re: Muir
by Marc (picard)
7/16/2009, 6:06 PM
in reply to a message by Ember (nsi)
Muir is pronounced myoor. You'll find the first bearer of that name in the US at http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=elefuntz&id=I0700.
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- Lethe (reniannen17)   +2
7/27/2009, 12:57 PM
dittoMyoor, not myur as Katica believes ;) It's quite simply the Scots word for Moor, and is found in place-names all over the place (I live in a suburb called Muirend).I believe it's not intuitive for an American to pronounce as you say e.g. dooty instead of dyuty.

This message was edited 7/27/2009, 1:03 PM

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- Marc (picard)   +1
7/28/2009, 8:16 AM
In North American English, the glide is only deleted after alveolar consonants like /t d n l s/ so that words like mew, pew, cue are always pronounced myoo, pyoo, kyoo.
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- Lethe (reniannen17)
7/28/2009, 2:42 PM
ah, ok, thankswasn't sure if it was the same
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