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(38,613 posts)But I'm plucking that out of thin air and should not be relied upon
eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)FSogol
(45,604 posts)Consider these town names in Wales:
Llandeilo, Llandovery, Llandrindod Wells, Llandudno, Llandudno Junction, Llandysul, Llanelli, Llanfair Caereinion, Llanfairfechan, Llanfyllin, Llangefni, Llangollen, Llanidloes, Llanrwst, Llantrisant, Llantwit Major, Llanwrtyd Wells, Llanybydder, Llanishen
In the Welsh language "LL" isn't the "L" sound of English. It's a sound English doesn't have.
Wikipedia has it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_%28name%29
csziggy
(34,141 posts)But I have no idea how to pronounce it. I should ask this guy - he could teach me how to say it:
In case you didn't catch it, the town is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)CTyankee
(63,942 posts)Ptah
(33,062 posts)raccoon
(31,151 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)it took a long time for conventions to settle down. Would you believe "gheryle" became "girl"? Plus, when the English import a word from another language (as with raccoon), they tend to mangle it pretty badly.
Um, people who live in glass houses ...
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)and he said it was to distinguish the Welsh Lloyds from the British Loyds.
frogmarch
(12,162 posts)lots of double L words. Mr. froggy was named Llwyd at birth, which is Welsh, but it got Americanized and he's Lloyd now.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Someone had to finally say it. I was the one who stepped up to the plate.
Loid.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)is insuring my spelling talent .
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)2naSalit
(87,090 posts)aside from the fact that they taste awful, just too creepy.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)they won't tell me what they're naming her, but at one point it was going to be Noelle until I started referring to their unborn daughter as No-E-E. I know they're not the sort of people to foresee how their child will be abused by peers for the name they give her.
5 year olds can be such assholes.
I'm an asshole too but I'm not wrong. Even his mother agreed, said they might as well just name the girl "Larda" or "Bruce" or "Neveah" and get it over with if they're not going to contemplate the ramifications for verbal bullying of a name.
rug
(82,333 posts)I knew a woman who worked in the maternity ward of a hospital who said a mother wanted to neme her daughter Placenta Previa.
Her heart was in the right place because it sounded pretty.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Then the extra L is for "legend."
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