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Note the one "m" in this name.

Is it pronounced like the season "summer" with a short "u" or like the country "Sumer" with a long "u"?

This questions applies to the British family name only.

Does anyone know the lyrics to this song?

My grandfather lived in Japan around 1953 and he always sang a song that sounded something like this:

"Uska dahta hahta bahta

ti nee mee tahdah

yo nee noh

fushee nee noh

yoh noh toh day"

I wrote it phonetically the best I can. I know this is not a good transliteration of it; but I don't know Japanese.

Could someone please point me in the right direction of finding this song?

This is "summer" in Irish (Gaeilge) and Scottish (Gàidhlig).

Please include what dialect you are using (I think that it is pronounced "sav-ruh" in Ulster dialect, "sow-ruh" in another -- and maybe "sou-ruhg" in Gàidhlig).

Is there a standard pronunciation?

Also, any general rules for the pronunciation of "mh" and "dh" would be appreciated.

This is the Irish (Gaeilge) the word for "summer".

Please include what dialect you are using (I know that it is pronounced "sav-ruh" in Ulster dialect, "sou-ruh" in another -- and maybe "sou-ruhg" in Scots [Gàidhlig]).

Is there a standard pronunciation?

Also, any general rules for the pronunciation of "mh" and "dh" would be appreciated.

I recently attended the funeral of a Baptist relative in Georgia (USA); and I noticed some practices that seemed very different from the burial traditions of Episcopalians (Anglican Communion) and the Roman Catholic Church.

Are these practices regional (Southern US), religious, or completely secular (invented by the funeral industry)?

1) The coffin did not remain closed after the visitation the night before the funeral. It was re-opened near the end of the service so that the mourners could take turns (row by row) to view the body. (The funeral took place in the funeral home's chapel.)

2) The coffin could not be lowered for burial until the mourners had left. It was left above ground with a bouquet on top. (No earth was cast on it.) The family was told that they could return in an hour and that everything would be "fixed" with the flowers from the funeral placed on the grave.