Lachlan- thoughts?

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Both me and DH quite like the name Lachlan, and it goes nicely with our tricky surname. Do you think it's a strange move if we aren't Scottish or Irish? My grandfather was Irish but that's as much as we have got!

as in cough.. but not really. There is no phonetic way I can think to write the Scottish pronunciation of the soft 'ch' youjist have to have heard it lol

Yeah, I've usually heard it pronounced with a hard 'ck' by people unable to do the good, back of throat 'ch' sound that is Scottish people (and Germans!) do, so they say 'lock' instead of 'loch' too. But perhaps the Irish pronunciation is a with a hard 'ck'. Certainly up here, you would never say Lack/Lock-lan.

“Our pronounciation would be Lock-lan“

But it’s a ch sound... if you can’t pronounce it then why would you use it?