The accompanying text in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands' by James Logan begins as follows: "CLANN DHUBHI - THE MAC PHEES The Gaël have a predilection for softening the pronunciation of words, whence a language, which to a stranger would appear, from its numerous consonants, to be harsh and unpleasing, is rendered very euphonious. The Clann, or Mac, in this case, aspirates the d, the indication of which effect is the h which follows; but the name has been farther softened, in common parlance, by elision of the first syllable, into MacPhee."
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