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Friday, August 26, 2005

Help me pick out a name!

Hey everyone, in troupe we're picking out Irish names for ourselves for when we're dressed up in the settler costumes. I've got mine narrowed down to two, and I need help deciding!

• Muireann Ni Mhanacháin
pronounced roughly "Muirien nee Vonnachann."
If anglicized, it becomes Muireann O'Monaghan.

• Muireann Ni Mhaille
pronounced roughly "Muirien nee Valla"
Anglicized as Muireann O'Malley.

Although I really like the lilt on the first one, the second one just seems to fit me, I don't know why... I still can't decide though. Any opinions? Random thoughts?

posted by Rachel @ 11:52 PM  

21 Comments:

  • At 8/27/2005 12:45 AM, Blogger Herohtar said…

    Mmmm... this chicken salad I am eating right now is really good.

    Hey, you said random thoughts... ;-D

    Hmm, the anglicized version of the second one makes me think of Thomas O'Malley the alley cat from The Aristocats... and O'Malley is a really common name.

    O'Monaghan is a bit less common, plus if you take off the "O'" you get the last name of the guy who played Merry in LotR (Dominic Monaghan), and LotR is cooler than The Aristocats, therefore, the second name is cooler than the first one.

    So there you have it, my random thoughts.

    As for my opinion, I really don't care, though I do like the first one better.

     

  • At 8/27/2005 10:29 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Do you know what their meanings are?

     

  • At 8/27/2005 1:01 PM, Blogger frisbeegurl said…

    I like the 2nd one.. umm I'm not sure exactly why.. Probably because the first one will be too long for me to remember hehe..

     

  • At 8/27/2005 2:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I like the first one. Caleb has some good points, too. : D

     

  • At 8/27/2005 6:07 PM, Blogger £l §tévó said…

    I'm the thinkin the second one, I think I just like the sound of it (I'm probly not pronouncing it right though) better.

     

  • At 8/27/2005 6:56 PM, Blogger Rachel said…

    Thanks everyone for the comments! I ended up just letting Hannah choose for me this morning, since we want the same last name. It's Muireann Ni Mhanacháin. If you want to know how it's really pronounced, since it's so impossible to write phonetically in English, ask me sometime. Though if you ever talk to us before/after a performance, I'll probably tell you anyway. :D

     

  • At 8/28/2005 1:32 AM, Blogger Herohtar said…

    Yay!

    Lol, yeah, you'll have to tell me the pronunciation....

     

  • At 8/28/2005 3:50 PM, Blogger Rachel said…

    Okay... I give up... I like Muireann Ni Mhaille better, so Hannah and I will just be cousins or something. :D

     

  • At 8/28/2005 7:36 PM, Blogger Herohtar said…

    Aww... oh well, I guess I won't hold it against you... ;-D

     

  • At 8/28/2005 9:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    will you talk with an accent too? ;)

     

  • At 9/01/2005 12:37 AM, Blogger Herohtar said…

    Rachel's the only one who can what?

     

  • At 9/01/2005 5:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    But why was that a problem? Isn't Rachel the one who offered to speak the words in the first place, thereby being the one who Kitty Pryde was probably talking to?

     

  • At 9/03/2005 12:22 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    ;o)

     

  • At 9/03/2005 2:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Muireann Ni Mhaille, I would like to hear how that's pronounced. I bet it's pretty.

    Check out my site! Yeah, I know, "Evil Xanga". I only got it so I could comment on a friend’s site. I may not keep it, I dunno.

     

  • At 9/05/2005 3:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey, Rachel, I got a blog!

     

  • At 9/07/2005 7:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    You're welcome to join us at RUF (Reformed University Fellowship) tonight (and every Wednesday), you OU peoples! It's a Bible study. 9:15 Go in the East intrance to the Lloyd Noble center. Questions: call me! ;)

     

  • At 9/09/2005 2:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey Rachel, did you know you're on the FOCUS website?

     

  • At 9/09/2005 3:35 PM, Blogger Rachel said…

    WHOAH! I had no idea! That's weird! And... YES!!! I'M NOT BLINKING IN IT!!! WHOOHOO!!! Happiness... okay, lol, I'm done. It's just a once in year occurrence to be in a picture when I'm not blinking. Or it is now at least. I never used to blink for pictures up until this year, but now almost every picture I'm in... grr. :(

     

  • At 9/09/2005 7:09 PM, Blogger Herohtar said…

    Lol, that's awesome! Right on the top of the front page too.

    *Note to self: stay away from people at Wildwood who are holding cameras*

     

  • At 9/10/2005 8:21 AM, Blogger £l §tévó said…

    Of course, it wasn't until this year that I began the wonderful surprise pictures, and not until this year that Donald started bringing his camera to stuff, hehe.

     

  • At 9/10/2005 9:27 AM, Blogger Rachel said…

    Hey, you're right, Stevo, it IS all your fault! HA!

     

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