Colm Meaney

[gsdx]

Memory Alpha says his Irish name is Colm Ó Maonaigh.

He played Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: TNG and Deep Space Nine.

How is his name pronounced?

 

[pat grimshaw]

Colm Maney.

 

[gsdx]

Is that 'Maney' as in 'May-nee' or 'Man-nee'?

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ The man I knew here pronounced it as 'May-nee'.

I've spoken to English genealogists who say that families would spell and pronounce their names anyway they wanted. We here weren't required to register names here prior to the 1850s. So many people were illiterate at that time anyway.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

Is that 'Maney' as in 'May-nee' or 'Man-nee'?

It's May-nee, but his Irish name is quite different. More like O Mwoy-o-ne (bad phonetics I am sure, but its as close as I can think right now!)

 

[JohnnyAnger]

Ah good - you can ignore my phonetics and just listen to an Irishman say it! http://www.forvo.com/word/%C3%B3_maonaigh/

 

[gsdx]

^ That was cool. Thanks.

 

[Cormac135]

I always though it was pronounced like mean-y, like that old man is a right mean-y.

 

[The Fly]

I thought this was about the former Iranian Ayatollah.....................

 

[The Loner]

I always though it was pronounced like mean-y, like that old man is a right mean-y.

So did I.

 

[pat grimshaw]

There's no shame in being ignorant.

Two thirds of the population are shockingly ignorant.