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Diz

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Amaethwr said :
Th is pronounced like ff, or something, and I think -wr is just like -er.

E: I did look into welsh pronounciations quite a while ago, but there's a good few rules to follow lol, a little complicated.

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Just makes me think of that bloody train station

03-Oct-2013 13:28:38

Amaethwr
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Amaethwr

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Hah :P

Just read this, then checked around office making sure everyone is away, then tried pronouncing Lletya. :L

Ll is a sound with no English equivalent. It is formed by pronouncing L with a slight escape of air around the tongue, and sounds like thl or shl with the leading th/sh very soft. Try saying whistle with a lisp, as whithle.

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03-Oct-2013 13:33:13

Amaethwr
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Diz said :
Definitely was not sitting here trying to say it myself...
Lol

Thl-e-t- ok..

y has two different sounds. In one-syllable words (llyn), and in the last syllable of polysyllabic words (estyn), it is a shortened EE sound as at the end of happy. (Note the different sound in ywy, however). In other contexts (in non-final syllables of polysyllabic words) it is pronounced as the obscure vowel schwa, as in the first syllable of the English word about (e.g. ystyr, pronounced uh s t ii r, where uh represents schwa).
The preceding rules for y apply to South Welsh accents. In areas of North Wales, the non-schwa pronunciation of y is less like English EE and more of a guttural sound, formed further back in the mouth.

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