keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) (07/22/85)
In article <248@persci.UUCP> bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan) writes: >>Another group you may wish to look into is a Scottish group >>called Ossian (pronounced oh-SHEEN). > >Could somebody straighten me out on the names Ossian (a Scottish group) and >Ossian (an Irish group)? I'm told that one is pronounced oh-SHEEN, and the >other AW-See-in. I had thought that oh-SHEEN was the Irish group, but I >could be wrong. (I've enjoyed concerts by the Scottish Group!) The Scottish group is Ossian, pronounced AW-see-un. The Irish group is Oisin, with an accent mark over the second 'i', pronounced oh-SHEEN. I guarantee that 'AW-see-un' is the way the Scottish group pronounces their name. I can't guarantee the pronunciation of Oisin, never having heard them live, but 'oh-SHEEN' is consistent with what I learned in one semester of an Irish Gaelic class. -- Morris M. Keesan keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan