GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3

[Tom Ryan]

Dave,

	That appears to be a good rule of thumb.  As far as Henry Kyd Douglas is
concerned, I suspect the "Kid" pronunciation is the Americanized version,
while the Douglas descendants are holding on to the Scottish "Kide" despite
how most others pronounce it.

Tom

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Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


Topic 10 (Tom Ryan on Henry Kid/Kide Douglas)
Tom,
I do not want to trust failing memory, but I could almost swear that it was
Fletcher M. Green (editor of "I Rode with Stonewall") who corrected me and
said that it was pronounced "kid." And I have since used that
pronunciation. Based upon the first-hand experience of a family in which
the husband said "MONT-ee CHELL-a" and the wife said "Monty-SELL-a" and the
humiliation of being told, for example, that "tib-ih-tha" [Tibitha] was
actually pronounced TYE-bu-thu, I developed a rule of thumb about Virginia
names: (1) Try to get a local, native-born Virginian to say it first. (2)
Do NOT ask a second one. Again, see the notes by Richard Harwell in his
edition of Richard Taylor's memoirs, "Destruction and Reconstruction," pp.
338-339.
V/R
Dave Gaddy

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