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12th September 14, 05:41 PM
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... in the USA South
 Originally Posted by OC Richard
"Kinlaw" doesn't surprise me, in the USA South. ...
Agreed. I joined just to say, nearby Kinloch Plantation is pronounced, locally, kin - lahw, or kin-law (for Yankees.)
I'm sure, a couple hundred years ago, Master Kinloch's name rhymed with flint lock,
but the local "lazy" drawl, and strong Gullah community influence, has transformed the
word so that Kinloch now rhymes with Gullah. i.e. kin-lahw ... Gull - ah
But there is still Scot influence 'round these parts ... i.e. www.charlestonscots.org
Last edited by M Rhys; 13th September 14 at 04:52 AM.
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13th September 14, 05:22 AM
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Another Carolina user reporting in. The colonists here butchered non-English language and names in a way that makes outsiders' heads swim. Additionally I have some friends who seemed to have christened their bairn with every plantation-owning surname they could shake out of the lad's family tree. Young master Rutledge Talliaferro Hampton Kinlaw [last name withheld] seems to be bearing up under his very well under the weight of such a name, though everyone just calls him Tradd.
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