T.C.: Truth is when this clan left Scotland they were Chisholm's. I come from New Scotland, aka Nova Scotia, and in parts on eastern Nova Scotia the name Chisholm probably represents 30% of phone book listings. They damn well, will not tolerate one pronouncing it Chism. Clearly I grew up knowing it was Chis-Holm, and if in right company one damn well got corrected in a hurry for saying something like Chism.
The name Chism as I know it came from a John Wayne movie, with "Chism Trail" forming part of the title. Upon inspection of a map, I found Chism Trail to be in western USA. I expect some old Chisholm guy made his way west in the early 1800s, probably illiterate, made himself some money, probably became famous, probably learned to read and write, thus put his own spelling on Chisholm.
Like you say, what difference, we know they are all Clan Chisholm. By the way, what I picked up on google was a discussion on Red Power forum, those guys were calling it Chism, and no translation. Who amoung us would ever question those RED POWER guys.
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