>>>Come on, Terry, you can do better than that. 3rd grade material at best <s>.
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>>It's a fair cop. I'm from Liverpool, but there is no concensus as to the etymology of the name.
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>McDonnell
>Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnuill, a patronymic from the personal name Domhnall (see McDonald).
>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Yeah I knew that

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>McDonald
>Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnuill, a patronymic from the personal name Domhnall, which is composed of the ancient Celtic elements domno- ‘world’ + val- ‘might’, ‘rule’.
>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Yeah I knew that. Damn you for dredging this up {s}

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>Yep - hamburgers rule the world. Hasn't this been covered already?

But as you've revealed, McDonald is a bastardization of a nobel original name.

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>>>Oh, and it wasn't just the weather that spurred the emigration - witchburning, of which we seem to be so famous for, didn't originate here <s>
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>>Well that's a contradiction. As soon as they lit the fire the deluge would come down and immediately put it out!
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>Hence the move to the New World.

What? so your witch pyres wouldn't be extinguished?