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From: Kevin Killion< >
Subject: Re: Ireland variants of the name
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:16:14 -0600

>I thought Kileen was also a spelling common in Ireland

Several authorities do indeed claim Killeen as a variant. I haven't seen
that in the records I've looked up, but it sounds plausible. In the
records I've frequently seen Killion and Killian used interchangeably in
the same family.

>Do you all make Killian 2 or 3 syllables? .. Kil-i-an .. Kill-yun..
>Kil-ul-yun .. Kil-lene ... I would think the Irish may have more variants
>...

Now try saying that with different Irish accents, perhaps spoken by someone
who doesn't speak English, and then posted to records by someone who speaks
only English who many have any of a wide variety of English accents!

I suspect that the Germans many have more control over the spellings due to
far better attention to documentation and records, and literacy in the
"official" language. (In Ireland, pre-19th century, many or most people
did not speak the "official" language!)

-- Kevin

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