Spelling Bees and Séances Spell AYKROYD. (without looking!) Can you pronounce it? (ˈeɪkˌrɔɪd ) Can I get the definition? According to Collins English Dictionary, Aykroyd is a noun, meaning “Dan”. Dan. born 1952, Canadian film actor and screenwriter, best known for the television show Saturday Night Live (1975–80) and the films The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Can you …
Month: April 2014
James W. POWELL – “An Old Photographer and a Good Citizen His Useful Career” This morning at 9:15, Mr. James W. Powell passed away, at his residence, Princess Street, after a lingering illness. The deceased was born in the house now occupied by his family, in 1842, consequently he was 54 years of age. He …
The Sears family name is derived, misspelled, translated, obscured, and Americanized into various forms. From ancestry.com, this blurb on the Sears name seems to simplify everything. Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below). …