How to pronounce Cavan

[KGarrad]

So many variations ....  may I please ask if the locals ever pronounce it as per the triangle next to
An Cabhán rather than the triangle next to Cavan?

Generally people don't mix languages, I think that's the basic rule internationally. Cavan when speaking English, An Cabhán when speaking Irish.

I think you're right, Sinann.
Think of English and French ways of saying Paris.
English & German for Cologne.
English & Dutch for The Hague/Den Haag.
etc

[HughC]

The English mangled names wherever they went.

I sometimes wonder whether those who went to the colonies were hard of hearing, or whether they just couldn't spell.  I puzzled over "Currachee" in old letters, until it dawned on me that it's Karachi.

I've even heard residents of Ballymena pronounce the Bráid river as if it were the English word braid (or brayed): brad would be closer.

[MrsL87]

Hi!

I'm living in Cavan Town, It's pronounced like Gavin but with a C

[Rosinish]

Generally people don't mix languages, I think that's the basic rule internationally. Cavan when speaking English, An Cabhán when speaking Irish.

Maybe they don't mix languages but I can assure you, people can come up with so many variations of words/names just by their own dialect...

Here's an example most of us should understand...

Mayonnaise i.e. Mayo...

Us Scots would say May-o but I've heard it pronounced as My-o i.e. dialect & accent do play a part.

This is the most common reason our ancestors names seemed to change dramatically after leaving Scotland for the 'New World'...

MacInnes becoming McGuinness, probably because the North Americans thought that was how it should have been spelled according to their own accents/dialect 

Another example is of the surname MacEachen, it somehow managed to be distorted to become MacEacheRn...cringe...I can abide anything except an 'R' out of nowhere 

Annie