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Welsh BAs
from North Wales local paper, parents' names in brackets:
Nanw* Ffransis (Dylan & Gwennan)
Rebeca Camwy* (Miriam & Geraint)
Seren Eirwyn (Gwion & Kayla)
Alys* Wyn (Elen & Dylan)
Ynyr Gwyn (Simon & Heledd*)* = my favourites
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I love Alys!Seren is also very nice and I quite like Gwyn.
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Sometimes I love Welsh names not because I necessarily care for the names themselves but because to me, someone who knows nothing about Welsh at all, they just look so convoluted and W-heavy and "Why on earth does it need two Fs?" that I can't even hate on them. :-P Polish names do that to me sometimes as well. It's the "I don't even know where to begin so I just have to take it for what it's worth" sense. I remember once someone posted a version of the name Heaven whose spelling was mangled almost beyond recognition. I said that if it was my name I would alter the pronunciation just a smidgen and then pass it off as Welsh. :-P
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I love Seren and also Alys, which is strange because I don't really like the name Alice.
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Whoa, Welsh names are awesome. I love the double F's in Ffransis! Very cool! How are Camwy and Ynyr pronounced exactly?
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Ynyr is UN-ir and Camwy would be CAM-wee. (Camwy must be pretty rare - I've never seen it before)
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Nanw Ffransis is really cool. I appreciate seeing the rest, but none of them particularly excite me.
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Ffransis....now THAT, my friends, is wicked. How would you pronounce Nanw, I wonder? Heledd is also fabtastic. These Welsh names look so edgy! Like they are kooky postmodern rock stars.
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It's NAN-oo. It is ridiculously cute.
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whoooa!That IS ridiculously cute! omg!
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Trust the Welsh to have awesome names!I like them all except for Dylan and Kayla.
My personal faves are Nanw Ffransis, Rebeca Camwy, Alys Wyn and Ynyr Gwyn.
I'm happy someone actually went looking for the Welsh BAs. It really mixes things up!
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I like Alys much better than Alice - is it pronounced the same?
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.
PS Why is a girl called Wyn? (I like it too). Shouldn't it be Wen? (Just interested!)

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WenI find that incredibly adorable right now. Even if it's not a "real" Welsh name (apparently it's Chinese) it is SO woolly and Welshy and foggy and awesome. Namelisting iiit!
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Alys is pronounced the same as Alice. I love it.
I suspect her mum's surname probably has Wyn in it - Wyn Evans, Wyn Jones or something similar.
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Thanks! My gran's Alice but I've never liked the spelling.
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ignoreI like Alys much better than Alice - is it pronounced the same?
I think the Welsh BBC TV personality Sara Edwards has a daughter called Alys. I've liked that spelling ever since I read of Alys Pearsall Smith, but am intrigued by the way it might be pronounced in Welsh.
I love Rebeca's mum's name, Miriam.

This message was edited 12/9/2009, 5:26 AM

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I like Kayla.
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