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HelpRe: Westley or Inigo?
in reply to a message by honeypie
Inigo, without hesitation. Sound architectural antecedents, an attractive alternative to the ghastly Ignatius; the only possible drawback might be people expecting a spectrum name and inserting a redundant -d-.
Westley, on the other hand, isn't Wesley. Which is heavy Methodist and therefore not my scene. Puts it in the same category as Calvin and Luther, a kind of tattoo on the forehead. I've been told that Americans pronounce Wesley with a ss sound, like the s in West, in fact; in British English it's a zz sound. And the added -t- would then modify the pronunciation in a British direction, which is mildly amusing; it was originally West Meadow but when the -t- dropped out, the -s- sound became a -z-. In modern English, Westley sounds and looks wrong to me, like a proofreading error or the best effort of a spellchecker.
So, then: a mn for little Inigo! Inigo Aled? Inigo Emrys? Inigo Ieuan? What about Inigo Yorick, or Inigo Constantine? Inigo Lawrence?
Westley, on the other hand, isn't Wesley. Which is heavy Methodist and therefore not my scene. Puts it in the same category as Calvin and Luther, a kind of tattoo on the forehead. I've been told that Americans pronounce Wesley with a ss sound, like the s in West, in fact; in British English it's a zz sound. And the added -t- would then modify the pronunciation in a British direction, which is mildly amusing; it was originally West Meadow but when the -t- dropped out, the -s- sound became a -z-. In modern English, Westley sounds and looks wrong to me, like a proofreading error or the best effort of a spellchecker.
So, then: a mn for little Inigo! Inigo Aled? Inigo Emrys? Inigo Ieuan? What about Inigo Yorick, or Inigo Constantine? Inigo Lawrence?
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