Joseph Black wrote --
>I've just realized that this talk requires me to say the word
>"Rhiwledyn" aloud. I *think* the 'iw' is pronounced as if 'iu':
>but any advice from the experts on the list would be much
>appreciated.
My middle name is 'Estyn' (Welsh for 'hope') and for 58 years
the family has pronounced it 'Estin'. But I have been researching
the activities of one of "Shakespeare's" step-fathers in South
Wales. He was based at Dyffryn in Llanwynno, in the Cynon
Valley and those words are pronounced 'Duff-rin' (with a rolled
'r'), 'Klan-wunno' and 'Kun-non'
You could just chicken out and call the place by its English name,
'Little Orme'.
Peter Zenner
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