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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 03:57 pm
this has been on my mind for a while, some people pronounce the surname doherty with a c for example- doCerty whereas other just keep a H. Or sometimes its more of a dowerty type sound. does anybody know the correct pronunciation?
oh no cant believe i wrote "durname" in the topic field and didnt even check it. I do have some intelligence and this is an honest mistake
You can edit that, you know . . .
"Daw-er-tee" is close, but its hard to produce the short "o" sound in writing without the diacritical mark.
The lady that works in thw town office here uses "door-hit-tree" but if people are talking fast it usually sounds more like "dir-hit-tree".
This is my wife's surname. I pronounce it don't-hurt-me, but those from her part of the world pronounce it like Setanta's version with an audible "h" and inaudible "w":
daw-her tee
Where I grew up, its sounds like "dough~er - tea".
Some people almost turn it into a single syllable when they're in a rush.
I've also heard a "doch - erh - TEA" variant from the East Coast.
I suspect the name was originally pronounced as in ehBeth's last example. Those silent letters (gh, in this case) were once there for a reason...
All the people with that name I've known pronounce it "Doraty"... I've been trying to figure out how they get the R so close to the D...
agree with ehBeth on the pronounciation
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