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Laing--pronunciation please....
« on: Monday 02 January 17 10:37 GMT (UK) »
Having a Scottish Laing gt gt gt grandmother, I, an English woman have always pronounced this as LANG. Having watched Ricky Tomlinsons WDYTYA it was pronounced as LANE.
Please could someone tell me the "correct" one. I am sorry for my ignorance on this matter   :-[
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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #1 on: Monday 02 January 17 10:42 GMT (UK) »
As a Scot from Edinburgh I would be a "Lang" man myself. Others may disagree!

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #2 on: Monday 02 January 17 10:51 GMT (UK) »
Nah, Scottish name Laing as in lame. Glasgow surname, nothing to do with  the commoner Lang! ;D

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #3 on: Monday 02 January 17 11:16 GMT (UK) »
Thank you both,  not sure how helpful  :D  ;D My lot of Laings are from around Elgin and Rafford Moray.
AREA, Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire. Staffordshire. Leicestershire, Morayshire.
Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #4 on: Monday 02 January 17 11:22 GMT (UK) »
There was a Laing who did his psychiatric stuff on TV.

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #5 on: Monday 02 January 17 14:31 GMT (UK) »
As a Morayshire girl, I would and do pronounce it "layng"

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 02 January 17 14:51 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks Ellen.
AREA, Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire. Staffordshire. Leicestershire, Morayshire.
Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #7 on: Monday 02 January 17 15:11 GMT (UK) »
Ellen, it's just that folk who are not familiar with the name take a guess. Laing the Jeweller in the Argyll Arcade is so well known here in Glasgow that the question doesn't arise.

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Re: Laing--pronunciation please....
« Reply #8 on: Monday 02 January 17 15:26 GMT (UK) »
I recant, Skoosh, as your post has just reminded me of Laing the Jeweller in Rose Street in Edinburgh and that  is  pronounced as Ellen has said!

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