In a message dated 2/2/2016 6:15:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
'As for biographies, there won't be any biographies of me because, for
only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not
make exciting copy.'"
"or read". Still, I always found the first name Flannery hardly exciting.
But then I am an Ossianic at heart.
"Flannery" derives from a surname, derived from
"Ó Flannghaile"
-- pronounced by Ossian, "oh, flann x (the sound of 'ch' in 'loch ness')
aylee".
It means, obscurely, "one of the many descendant of Flannghal".
The first name Flannghal, pronounced, "flan - n - x -ahl" -- means "red
valour"."
Geary adds: ""red" is possibly here a metapthonymy for blood. Note that it
is the colour that excites the Irish bull."
As such, 'flannery' contrasted with 'flannel' (as "Flannelled fool," the
autobiography of Worsley) -- which is Welsh, rather than Irish -- fom
"gwlanen" "woolen cloth". As Geary remarks, as flannel was already in the 16th
century a well-known production of Wales, a Welsh origin for the word seems
antecedently likely -- but then I don't know any Christian whose first name
is "Flannel" and Worsley is using the word metaphtonymically."
Cheers,
Speranza
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