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What a gorgeous yet underappreciated name!
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Olwyn was the older sister of British writer Ted Hughes and sister-in-law of American writer Sylvia Path.
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Olwyn is the Welsh word for wheel.
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I was named Olwyn because my mother liked the piece of music entitled 'Dream of Olwen' from the film 'While I Live' (1947). My father used a different spelling when I was registered.
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Designer Stella McCartney has a daughter named Bailey Linda Olwyn.
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-Wyn is only correctly used when the bearer of a Welsh name is male. In Welsh, the feminine suffix is -wen. -Wyn is, however, a feminine suffix in Irish.
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"-Wyn is, however, a feminine suffix in Irish."
Are you sure? I've studied Scots Gaelic and Irish and neither has the letters "j", "k", "q", "v", "w", "x", "y", or "z".
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Are you sure? I've studied Scots Gaelic and Irish and neither has the letters "j", "k", "q", "v", "w", "x", "y", or "z".
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I would associate this name with a woman with fancy clothes and wavy hair. Probably because a girl I went to school with was of this identity. I also think it is a nice name though.
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An Irish politcian, Olwyn Enright, is a bearer of this name.
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Her work focuses on landscape and still-life. She is particularly interested in the concept of the artist plantsman, and often works outdoors and in her greenhouse studio in Sussex.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery.