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HelpRe: Malachy
in reply to a message by vigdis
Do "normal" people even know this name exists? I sure didn't before I came on BtN? I would think someone was not intelligent enough to know the name "Malachi". Judgemental, much? But that would be my first thought.
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I knew about it from Angela's Ashes long before I was on BtN. It is the name of author Frank McCourt's younger brother.
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Yep
That's the first place I heard it too, when I was 14-15 and read the book! Malachy McCourt has written a few books too that are pretty funny. :)
That's the first place I heard it too, when I was 14-15 and read the book! Malachy McCourt has written a few books too that are pretty funny. :)
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I dunno, they're not pronounced the same. I wouldn't imagine a name ending with -y would end with an I sound, although I can see how people could first think it was a weird spelling of Malachi. What with people changing every vowel to a y these days. But I have always sort of thought Malachy was more usable than your general Irish name because it's said how it looks in English. Although I guess it is Anglicized, so yeah.
This message was edited 3/29/2012, 12:24 PM
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I don't mean I'd pronounce it like Malachi,I mean if I heard it, I'd wonder why they couldn't just use Malachi because Malachy sounds weird to me.
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