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The New DU. Reply #122: It's a different pronounciation from the one the Scots and Irish use
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Ken Burch
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Mon Nov-16-09 01:52 PM
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| 122. It's a different pronounciation from the one the Scots and Irish use |
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But "Maher" has also been an Arab name.
Perhaps there was some pub crawl from Edinburgh to Damascus years and years ago that REALLY got friendly...
Or the first Arab "Maher" could've been the son of a Scottish or Irish conscript to the Crusades.
It's similar to how the Irish name "Costello" could have derived from the Spanish "Castillo", after some shipwrecked deserter from the Enterprise of England made himself at home with some coleen from Cork.
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