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4.27am
6 November 2023
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My understanding was that pretty much any male in Liverpool whose surname started with Mc or Mac was likely to be called Macca. So Paul was used to it for much of his early life and from then on, I thought. Didn’t he say that somewhere when talking about all their nicknames back in Liverpool?
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7.06am
30 August 2021
Offline Sea Belt said
That raises the question — are “Mc” names different from “Mac” names? Or are those two spellings for exactly the same thing?
I believe they’re the same thing meaning “son of” – the Scottish equivalent of the Irish O’ or the suffix “son” as in “Williamson”, for example.
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4.22am
4 July 2024
Offline Sea Belt said
That raises the question — are “Mc” names different from “Mac” names? Or are those two spellings for exactly the same thing?
Honestly, the kinda are and kinda aren’t. @seabelt that was a very good observation, I guess its the sound and Mc sounds like ‘Mick’ and Mac is like “Macbook” I guess.
But sometimes they are the same it really is weird! 
4.23am
4 July 2024
Offline Mr. Moonlight said
Sea Belt said
That raises the question — are “Mc” names different from “Mac” names? Or are those two spellings for exactly the same thing?
I believe they’re the same thing meaning “son of” – the Scottish equivalent of the Irish O’ or the suffix “son” as in “Williamson”, for example.
? I guess/
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