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[Opinions] Two Welsh name-sightings..

by Andromache (Hannah Ruth)

3/3/2009, 8:43 AM

A two-year-old Bronwen in the paper meeting Prince Charles. My lab instructor named Myfanwy (nicknamed 'Myf').

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- Joan-Ay

3/3/2009, 10:42 AM

I love Bronwen, but I'd probably wouldn't use it. It's very pretty though and I'm glad to see it used. Myfanwy is cool too. Again, I wouldn't use it, but most Welsh names are GPs for me.

- Jonquil

3/3/2009, 10:27 AM

I've always loved Bronwen (but not the inauthentic spelling Bronwyn).
Myfanwy is lovely.

- brilliantblue

3/3/2009, 9:58 AM

Myfanwy is on my PNL!

- Bear +2

3/3/2009, 9:37 AM

Yay! Myfanwy is so delicious. It's great to see it in real life. Nn Myf is adorable.

Bronwen is terrific too. Here in the U.S. everyone thinks to be a girl's name it has to be spelled Bronwyn. Again, very nice to see the Bronwen spelling on a real person.

Any Angharads on the horizon?

- Andromache (Hannah Ruth) +1

3/3/2009, 9:53 AM

My best friend is named Angharad, actually..

Angharad Mair.

- Bear

3/3/2009, 10:21 AM

You can't tell right now, but I'm clapping with my feet.

:-D

- Mackadal +2

3/3/2009, 9:19 AM

I hate Bronwen with seething passion. It`s too bumbly and masculine for a girl. Myfanwy sounds like a name found on an acid trip.

- Bear +1

3/3/2009, 9:45 AM

Bronwen

I respect your opinion on Bronwen. There are names that no matter how much people want me to like them, I just can't. I do get that.

But I can't help but try with Bronwen, just in case. Have you ever read / seen a book / movie, "How Green was My Valley?" Apart from being a wonderful story, it was my introduction to Welsh names. There is a character named Bronwen that is decidedly feminine in it. (Hearing them said with a Welsh accent might help to acquire a taste for them.)

If you read my posts here generally you know that I am not a fan of masculine names on girls -- at all. But Bronwen, for all it's hard edges, is traditionally feminine. There is a roundness, an Earthy quality to her; a still-waters-run-deep attitude. It's an acquired taste to be sure, but one worth the effort.

Just a thought.

(I won't try to interest you in Myfanwy. She's definitely not for everyone.)

This message was edited 3/3/2009, 9:49 AM

- Mackadal

3/3/2009, 4:12 PM

It`s not so much that it`s masculine, per se,but that I picture a girl with the name as being kind of like the snobby girl in class who tries hard to be pretty,but ends up in too-small, stained hand-me-down capris, and becomes angry because people hate her behind her back, or in front of her. Y`know? It`s just so much like Bruno or Hubert, like Lex Luther`s assistant in the first superman movie.

- Llewella (penguiny7)

3/3/2009, 9:07 AM

Awesome!

I love Myfanwy, and I like Myf as a nn. Bronwen is just alright, but very nice to see at least.

- BBH

3/3/2009, 8:49 AM

Love Bronwen. Myfanwy is a GP

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