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HelpRe: Gawain / Gwaine
in reply to a message by Ora (hufflepuffer)
I really like the name Gawain. I prefer the gə-WAYN pronounciation but GAH-win is nice.
I think the actors were certainly altering the name with regional accents, which is fine, but modern British accents don't really reflect historic pronounciations. In the days when phonetic spellings were more common, they would have spelled it with an 'o' if that was closer to what they said. Using phonetic spellings, the names that the modern actors were calling him would be Gowen or Garwin.
What did you think of the movie? I've been thinking about seeing it.
I think the actors were certainly altering the name with regional accents, which is fine, but modern British accents don't really reflect historic pronounciations. In the days when phonetic spellings were more common, they would have spelled it with an 'o' if that was closer to what they said. Using phonetic spellings, the names that the modern actors were calling him would be Gowen or Garwin.
What did you think of the movie? I've been thinking about seeing it.
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