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HelpRe: Myfanwy
in reply to a message by ✧･ﾟ: *Magpie*:･ﾟ✧
I am pretty sure that woman was called something else.
Myfanwy doesn't sounds like "may-fanny". Thank god! I love Eilonwy and the W should be pronounced as well.
"May-fanny" is beyond awful it makes me think of a fanny, and well, May. It is really odd.
Myfanwy should be mih-VAN-wee. A link is here: https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/04/welsh-diminutives.html (you can listen to it, scroll down to Myfi and read the entry).
Myfanwy with the correct pronunciation is fine but not a favorite. I love Eilonwy.
MAY-fanny is terrible.
My guess is that she wasn't Welsh but a tourist and that her parents had tried to give her a Welsh name but mispronounced it? Or that she was Welsh but her parents didn't speak Welsh? Or maybe she had a very similar name?
Maybe she was actually May-Fanny? Depending on how old she was Fanny could still have been a somewhat normal name when she was born. Or maybe you misheard it.
Similar names that I can think of:
May
May-Fanny (oh no)
Maryvonne (but this sounds really different)
Malvina
Maeve - this is sort of likely, maybe Maevie was her nickname or something?
Mayfair
Mavis
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Myfanwy doesn't sounds like "may-fanny". Thank god! I love Eilonwy and the W should be pronounced as well.
"May-fanny" is beyond awful it makes me think of a fanny, and well, May. It is really odd.
Myfanwy should be mih-VAN-wee. A link is here: https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/04/welsh-diminutives.html (you can listen to it, scroll down to Myfi and read the entry).
Myfanwy with the correct pronunciation is fine but not a favorite. I love Eilonwy.
MAY-fanny is terrible.
My guess is that she wasn't Welsh but a tourist and that her parents had tried to give her a Welsh name but mispronounced it? Or that she was Welsh but her parents didn't speak Welsh? Or maybe she had a very similar name?
Maybe she was actually May-Fanny? Depending on how old she was Fanny could still have been a somewhat normal name when she was born. Or maybe you misheard it.
Similar names that I can think of:
May
May-Fanny (oh no)
Maryvonne (but this sounds really different)
Malvina
Maeve - this is sort of likely, maybe Maevie was her nickname or something?
Mayfair
Mavis
Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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Damnit! I was sure I finally found the name
Nono, she was Welsh. The school trip was to Lleda Hall where we stayed for a week and she taught us how to sing Happy Birthday in Welsh because one of our classmates had a birthday during the trip. It could be that her name isn't Welsh at all, though or maybe you're right with her parents not being Welsh. Or I could be misremembering (I was 10 at the time).
She WAS an older woman - over 50 I think. She could have actually been May-Fanny now that you mention it... Maybe I've been on a wild goose chase lmao (I'll edit the first post)
I quite like Maryvonne, thank you!
Nono, she was Welsh. The school trip was to Lleda Hall where we stayed for a week and she taught us how to sing Happy Birthday in Welsh because one of our classmates had a birthday during the trip. It could be that her name isn't Welsh at all, though or maybe you're right with her parents not being Welsh. Or I could be misremembering (I was 10 at the time).
She WAS an older woman - over 50 I think. She could have actually been May-Fanny now that you mention it... Maybe I've been on a wild goose chase lmao (I'll edit the first post)
I quite like Maryvonne, thank you!
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