An OT name question

[Monica Coyne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "eloise_herisson" 
<eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
> Maria Gromova:
> >The thing is, I am,  and for the first time, I think, at loss how 
to 
> >pronounce the first name of the main character in a series that 
> >recently became one of my favorites. 
> 
> I thought you were going to say "Harry* for a moment there...
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >I think the pronunciation given in the translation is wrong, for 
> >many sites about names and my own limited knowledge of Gaelic 
(it's 
> >an Irish name), give another pronunciation. The name is Liam. 
Should 
> it be pronounced LY-am or LEE-am? Would be glad of any help.
> 
> I would say LEE-am.
> But where is there a Liam? Has he been subsituted for the even 
more 
> problematical Seamus?
> 
> ~Eloise
It is lee-am.  It's Gaelic for William