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Re: Sorry - modern name
How about Meilyn? do you know where this name comes from? I saw it in a book once by Marion Zimmer Bradley and thought it was really pretty... unfortunately... can't find it anywhere else...
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Does Marion Zimmer Bradley....Really strike you as a reliable source for Welsh names?Look, I'm glad you're enthusiastic - but use your common sense.Meilyn looks like a misreading of the Welsh MALE name Meilyr 'prince/chief'. Meilyn wouldn't really be an acceptable feminisation of the name amongst Welsh speakers.
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ok.... look, I tried to overlook the meanness in your msgs cause you were helpful... and I've read other posts and you were friendly in them, so I'm guessing your having a bad day... perhaps you wanted to wait in your response to me... perhaps I'm just so annoying that I should be grateful you answered me at all... but in my defence, the Bradley book I was thinking of had historical references in it... so why should I be critisized for thinking that maybe some of her 'made up' names might be realistic as well? at least I was making an attempt at being 'correct'... and please... don't feel like you 'have' to respond to my post... perhaps I'm having a bad day too.. in which case, I'd rather be able to talk to you than not... just couldn't stand by and be critisized in one hand than helped in another... I promise you, I won't ask about any more names... I got it... read the first message... you've answered me... and sorry to all the others, I know... this is not a name related post, but I didn't see any private way of sending this...
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Yes, a little harsh - I have 'bulletin board fatigue'...I am very tired. Of repeating myself. I shall retire and grow daisies.
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well... no, she didn't... hence my question... if I hadn't questioned it perhaps it would have been a reason to jump down my throat about it... and I didn't say I thought it was welsh, was thinking it might have been more anglo-saxon... basically not knowing where she got it was the whole basis of my question... thanks anyway...
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I think you mean "did", since Marion Zimmer Bradley passed on at least a year ago.
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Alive or dead...She (or rather her work) is still a resource in the present tense.
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