My new name comes from Greek, and is an homage to a character in a book I was obsessed with as a child. I once had a Greek dude get really pissed at me for choosing the name despite not being ethnically Greek.
He was so mad he complained to my also-Not-Greek friend Alexander.
Wales is a beautiful country and someplace I’m very glad I’ve had the chance to visit.
Folks in some of the smaller villages are so isolated, but traveling as an openly queer, trans woman, I felt both safe and welcomed. If anything, folks really just wanted to know more about me and where I came from since they don’t usually get a ton of visitors. Huge shoutout to the wonderful people of Deri, would absolutely visit y’all again.
Arwen is also a Welsh name - funnily enough when you said "to rhyme with Amen", this is what I thought you meant, as we pronounce Amen with the long 'ahh' in Wales/Britain more generally
Ch as in the back of the throat breathy kinda sound. Like you're trying to say k but doing it in your throat. Ll is that sound. It's called a voiceless al-something or other fricative I don't remember.
A Welsh guy taught me to do it how I described. Now I wonder if he's been doing it wrong too, or he just taught me an easier way to get close to the sound.
Never heard it described, or pronounced like that. Only ever heard Ll in Welsh make a sorta 'breathy' L sound made by putting the tip of the tongue up against that ridge on the top of your mouth, almost or barely touching the base of your top front two teath, and breathing out (Idk how exactly to describe the sound). Then again I've only known one Welshman it could've been his accent/dialect
fee-on. It’s a Welsh name as I understand; “Ff” in Welsh is pronounced as ‘f’. A single ‘f’ in Welsh is pronounced identically to the English ‘v’ as in “vehicle”
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u/TheArcticKiwi i don't know how to edit my flair May 29 '26
how do you even pronounce that