My daughter is a voracious reader, and often comes across proper names from exotic places. Yet sometimes, the words seem familiar, and yet can have an unexpected twist. One of these books has a character with an unusual name: Llewellyn. I know from other reading that Llewellyn is a names from the UK.
Question for us today is this:
How do you pronounce Llewellyn in its original language? And, given the difficulty of this particular name, can you find a native speaker saying the name aloud?
Hint: It's NOT "lew-ellen"!
Search on!
I tried first to find [British pronunciation llewellyn] and while looking at the results remembered the Google Translate had sound files for translation. I went over there to translate English to Welsh (previous results told me Llewellyn is of Welsh origins) and got http://translate.google.com/#en|cy|llewellyn
ReplyDeleteThe translation sounded mechanical and not so good.
Next search [llewellyn pronunciation sound] hit it at the top with a site called Pronounce Names http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/llewellyn
Hi Daniel,
ReplyDeleteJust go Forvo http://www.forvo.com/word/llewellyn#en
There's a pronunciation recorded from SW UK
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