it just sounds wrong...

[deird_lj]

When my New World Order takes control of the galaxy, people's names will have to be pronounced exactly as I expect them to sound based on the spelling.

After a year and a half of seeing "Dr Rodney McKay" in print, I'm now having to adjust to the fact that his name does not rhyme with "sigh" (as all previous "McKay"s I've known did), but instead rhymes with "say".
This is confusing me...

Comments

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Could very well be the product of using a name you're not familiar with, though "McKay" sounds rather ordinary. I've been misled by "Dana" and "Emil" before, and they're not terribly unusual.

[deird1]

See, that's the thing. I've known four different families with the surname of "McKay", and all of them pronounced it the same way. So I kinda thought I knew how to pronounce it by now...

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I mean, it may be that the writers who created Rodney's character didn't know.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm - but if they had to pronounce it as it is spelled they'd all have to rhyme it with say.

Except that if I try saying 'say' with an Australian accent it rhymes with sigh...

I know a family with that very surname and they pronounce it Mackee. All Mac and the rest a tiny little 'ee'.