What's The Proper Way To Pronounce "Loughran"?

[arwalden]

There's a Loughran Road in my 'hood... and whenever I give verbal directions to people on how to get to my house, I always stumble over its proper pronunciation.

The streets in my neighborhood have a medieval theme to them... (Round Table Dr, Long Bow Rd, Lancelot Rd, Camelot Way, Moat Way, Mace Dr, Crossbow Dr, Friar Rd, Archery Dr... cute huh?) so I imagine that Loughran must be some famous town, region or knight that I'm unfamiliar with.

My best guesses would be:

LOO-ran
LOO-gran
LOW-ran (low rhyming with "toe")
LOW-ran (low rhyming with "cow")
LOG-ran
LUFF-ran

[BurtWorm]

1. LOCCCHHHHHHHran

Like you have a husk of popcorn stuck in your throat.

:shrug:

[da_chimperor]

4. I was thinking the same n/t

[rkc3]

2. Lock-run

[terrya]

3. I'd say LUFF-ran

[htuttle]

5. If it's a Gaelic word...

I think you have to make sort of a choking sound when you say the 'gh'.

[unblock]

6. i'd actually put my money on "LOCK-run"

lemme put my google skills to the test....

[arwalden]

7. I tried googling it myself... apparently I'm not as skilled as many.

My other option would be to knock on the door of a random house on Loughran Rd and ASK how they pronounce it. (But that would be a very odd thing to do, and it might alarm them.)

[unblock]

13. got one link, anyway

http://members.tripod.com/~musiclassical/perfL.html

search this page for "loughran, james", there's a classical musician who pronounces his name "LOCK run".

i'm happy to believe the other posters who mention the gaelic throat-clearing sound in place of the "CK".

[arwalden]

17. Thank You! --- You Google Wizards Are Truly Impressive!!

Nice work!

-- Allen

[Liberaltarian]

8. i used to live on Goethe st. in chicago.

it was a riot hearing all the ways the illiterate riff-raff tried to pronounce it.

[terrya]

9. You mean like...GO-THEE?

:-)

[arwalden]

10. HEY! There's No "R" In Goethe!!!

It's pronounced "Goath"... everyone knows that.

[pagerbear]

11. Kleeb

[eyesroll]

12. Shar-day?

:shrug:

[Historic NY]

14. We have a restaurant run by a family with the same name.

It should sound like this:

Loooog ran , looooooog ran. g&h are silent.

[Donkeyboy75]

15. It's pronounced

Loughran. Duh!

[Donkeyboy75]

16. I work with someone with that last name.

It's pronounced Lock-ran, at least here...