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Help[Opinions] Welsh BAs
from North Wales local paper, parents' names in brackets:
Nanw* Ffransis (Dylan & Gwennan)
Rebeca Camwy* (Miriam & Geraint)
Seren Eirwyn (Gwion & Kayla)
Alys* Wyn (Elen & Dylan)
Ynyr Gwyn (Simon & Heledd*)
* = my favourites
Nanw* Ffransis (Dylan & Gwennan)
Rebeca Camwy* (Miriam & Geraint)
Seren Eirwyn (Gwion & Kayla)
Alys* Wyn (Elen & Dylan)
Ynyr Gwyn (Simon & Heledd*)
* = my favourites
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Sometimes I love Welsh names not because I necessarily care for the names themselves but because to me, someone who knows nothing about Welsh at all, they just look so convoluted and W-heavy and "Why on earth does it need two Fs?" that I can't even hate on them. :-P Polish names do that to me sometimes as well. It's the "I don't even know where to begin so I just have to take it for what it's worth" sense.
I remember once someone posted a version of the name Heaven whose spelling was mangled almost beyond recognition. I said that if it was my name I would alter the pronunciation just a smidgen and then pass it off as Welsh. :-P
I remember once someone posted a version of the name Heaven whose spelling was mangled almost beyond recognition. I said that if it was my name I would alter the pronunciation just a smidgen and then pass it off as Welsh. :-P
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Whoa, Welsh names are awesome. I love the double F's in Ffransis! Very cool! How are Camwy and Ynyr pronounced exactly?
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Ynyr is UN-ir and Camwy would be CAM-wee. (Camwy must be pretty rare - I've never seen it before)
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Nanw Ffransis is really cool. I appreciate seeing the rest, but none of them particularly excite me.
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Ffransis
....now THAT, my friends, is wicked. How would you pronounce Nanw, I wonder?
Heledd is also fabtastic. These Welsh names look so edgy! Like they are kooky postmodern rock stars.
....now THAT, my friends, is wicked. How would you pronounce Nanw, I wonder?
Heledd is also fabtastic. These Welsh names look so edgy! Like they are kooky postmodern rock stars.
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It's NAN-oo. It is ridiculously cute.
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whoooa!
That IS ridiculously cute! omg!
That IS ridiculously cute! omg!
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I like Alys much better than Alice - is it pronounced the same?
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.
PS Why is a girl called Wyn? (I like it too). Shouldn't it be Wen? (Just interested!)
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.
PS Why is a girl called Wyn? (I like it too). Shouldn't it be Wen? (Just interested!)
This message was edited 12/9/2009, 5:21 AM
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Wen
I find that incredibly adorable right now. Even if it's not a "real" Welsh name (apparently it's Chinese) it is SO woolly and Welshy and foggy and awesome. Namelisting iiit!
I find that incredibly adorable right now. Even if it's not a "real" Welsh name (apparently it's Chinese) it is SO woolly and Welshy and foggy and awesome. Namelisting iiit!
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I like Alys much better than Alice - is it pronounced the same?
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.
I like Alys much better than Alice - is it pronounced the same?
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.
This message was edited 12/9/2009, 5:26 AM
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I like Kayla.
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