How do you pronounce . . .

[Joepye_bob]

Why would Mc be pronounced Mic? There’s no vowel there, so why insist on inserting an ‘i’? Why not ‘o’ or ‘u’?

Mc, in Irish and Scottish names, is not a pronounceable combination of letters and was never intended to be. It’s a symbol that means “Mac”, which means “son of”. The confusion comes when the Mc is an unaccented syllable, as in McDonald. It’s hard to say Mac as an unaccented syllable, so it sounds sort of like Mic, when most people say it. But now we’ve reached the point where I’m hearing (young) people Mc as Mic on an *accented* syllable – pronouncing McIntosh as MicIntosh.

Until recently Mc was traditionally written with a double line under the c, indicating that was, in fact, a special symbol. My last name is McAbee and we have always written it that way. And, by the way, it’s pronounced MAC a Bee.

[LarryScottB]

How we pronounce it doesn't matter. How they pronounce it is:
Mack-uh-fee

This is based on a few calls to their headquarters a while ago.

[nomaxim]

Originally Posted by softech

How we pronounce it doesn't matter. How they pronounce it is:
Mack-uh-fee

This is based on a few calls to their headquarters a while ago.

McAfee is one of about twenty names known as "Scotch-Irish" surnames.

If memory serves this company is NOT Scotch-Irish, but Dutch.

[Lloyd_Tech]

Originally Posted by davidhan

Only a newbie mispronounces McAfee. Newbies expose themselves by not knowing the correct pronunciation.

Those of in the know tell if a tech is "for real" or not, by how they
pronounce McAfee.

McAfee is one of about twenty names known as "Scotch-Irish" surnames. A
number of Scotch families immigrated through Ireland, and their names got
spelled...

"Scotch" is a drink. People from Scotland are "Scottish."