Dialect split in original language?

[Charles Doyle]

Or Irish vs. Scotch?  Or British vs. American (~ the American tendency to move primary stress toward the front of words)?

--Charlie
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>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:56:18 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Dialect split in original language?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>In the '50's, I went to high school with a guy named "King McElroy." Contemporaneously, there was a rhythm-and-blues singer named "Solomon McElroy." King pronounced the shared surname as "MACKLE-roy," whereas Solomon pronounced it as "muh-KELLery."
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>Neither of these pronunciations matches what the spelling suggests. FWIW, using myself as a representative American-English speaker with little or no knowledge of Irish, I'd expect the pronunciation to be "muh-KELL-roy." Since this matches neither of the attested pronunciations, perhaps the difference stems from a dialect split in Irish.
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>Uh, not that it matters or anything. I was just wondering.
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>-Wilson

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