TOSCS wrote:...I've always pronounced it 'key', but lsitening to different versions of the Star of the County Down song, I've heard 'kway', 'jay' and 'kay'.
Here in gool old Anglophonic Oz, it's always been to rhyme with 'key'. My first time at Circular Quay in Sydney, as a child, I asked my Nana (bless her) what a 'kway' was, and she corrected me.
Years later, I hear the Irish pronunciation, and wonder at how much of it is, shall we say, poetic-linguistic lincense - in order to make it rhyme with words such as 'tea' etc.
