Graham

simon wrote on 31 Jan 2005:
[nq:1]Is 'Graham' read as 'gram'?[/nq]
My best friend in high school was named Doug Graham. His pronunciation was more like "gray-um".

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[nq:1]simon wrote on 31 Jan 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]Is 'Graham' read as 'gram'?[/nq]
[nq:1]My best friend in high school was named Doug Graham. His pronunciation was more like "gray-um".[/nq]
From Philly?

[nq:1]Is 'Graham' read as 'gram'?[/nq]
Interesting question, albeit one that has been discussed before (q.d.-g.). I pronounce it like "gram" /gr&hm/ (where /&h/ is the "tense short a"). However, my sister, eight years older than I and raised in the same community (Flatbush (The Heart of Brooklyn {Fourth Largest City in America})), says it like "gray-um" /greI@m/. Go figure. I haven't actually

Jess Askin wrote on 31 Jan 2005:
[nq:2]simon wrote on 31 Jan 2005: My best friend in high school was named Doug Graham. His pronunciation was more like "gray-um".[/nq]
[nq:1]From Philly?[/nq]
No, from Joisey.

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[nq:1]Jess Askin wrote on 31 Jan 2005:[/nq]
[nq:1]No, from Joisey.[/nq]
Nah, a cracker, from Atlanta.

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[nq:2]Is 'Graham' read as 'gram'?[/nq]
[nq:1]Interesting question, albeit one that has been discussed before (q.d.-g.). I pronounce it like "gram" /gr&hm/ (where /&h/ is the ... actually asked her whether she deliberately altered her pronunciation of "graham", which would seem to be anodd thing to do.[/nq]
In The Rest of the World (you know, that little place) I'd say that "gray-um" is the

In the US, yes.

I should try to switch. I know two Grahams here and I say "gram" without thinking... I bet their Dutch friends say "grem". But for them to get the G and R right would count for more than the vowel.
[nq:1]Even if you spell it "Graeme"[/nq]
The Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames says "Graham" derives from Grantham, Lincolnshire, and is found as both Grantham and G

Donna Richoux wrote on 31 Jan 2005:
[nq:1]In the US, yes.[/nq]
That's true for graham crackers and graham flour, but not necessarily for the family name, as in the case of my high school friend.

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[nq:1]Donna Richoux wrote on 31 Jan 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]In the US, yes.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's true for graham crackers and graham flour, but notnecessarily for the family name, as in the case of my high school friend.[/nq]
How confusing! For those of us under the influence of India, gram flour is chickpea flour. We've vaguely heard of Graham flour, but would call it "Grayum flour".
Mike.

[nq:1]In the US, yes.[/nq]
That's interesting, and confusing. The old Ox D of English Christian Names says it's a Scottish surname. (I wish they'd drop this bedevilling "English" from their reference books on personal and place names.)
Doesn't "Grantham" (Newton's home town) to "Graham" seem a most unusual transformation? I wouldn't put myself up against the editors of Surnames without ver