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Re: ORIGIN OF NAME
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I was interested in your Owena example. How is it pronounced in real life? I would have guessed, like Owen with an a on the end - stress on the first syllable - but a friend of mine met an Owena once who pronounced it like Rowena with the R missing, which we both thought was unlovely. I'd love to know which is more used!
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A Welsh speaker would pronounce Owena as oh-WEN-ah. It is essentially Owen with an a on the end but the stress moves to the middle syllable. The 'e' is also short unlike the 'e' in Rowena. HTH
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