The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13857   Message #1551914
Posted By: GUEST
28-Aug-05 - 09:51 PM
Thread Name: Help: Bodhrain/Drummer/Banjo Jokes
Subject: RE: Pronouncing Bodhrán
In most of the south and west of Ireland, it's pronounced bough-rawn, to rhyme with cow-brawn. In the North, they pronounce it bo-rawn, as in "the moron with the Bodhrán." Americans regularly slaughter it in a variety of ways. (The word, not the goat.)