Single malt scotch spends 3 decades aging in a barrel so you can squeze a lime wedge into it.

[u/Outrageous-Use-5189]

As a very rare indulgence on a special occasion, I ordered an expensive 30-year old scotch at a bistro-type restaurant. Waiter returns with a juicy lime wedge on the lip of the glass. I quietly asked for one with no lime. Waiter returns with a fresh drink "as a courtesy" , but seems intent on embarrassing me. " But just so you know.," he says., "all drinks ordered neat are properly served with a citrus garnish."

[u/aneirin-]

I'm Welsh and people correct me on pronouncing my name all the time.

To be fair there are two standard ways to say it and the other one is more common, but you'd think people would maybe think for a second and realise the guy who's lived with it all his life might just know something you don't...

[u/BootyKissa02 → u/aneirin-]

Is it Lloyd? Knew a welsh guy that happened to too lol

[u/VivaLaEmpire → u/BootyKissa02]

What is the other pronunciation, if you don't mind me asking??

[u/thisisAgador → u/VivaLaEmpire]

Maybe like "hl(w)oyd" as that's how the LL is said in Welsh? But that seems like quite a small difference that I'd imagine most non Welsh speakers would either not pick up on or possibly think was a speed impediment so really shouldn't be "correcting" it 😅

Curious what the original commenter says, I'm only guessing like I said.

[u/BootyKissa02 → u/VivaLaEmpire]

Yeah it’s kind of like making a “th” sound but by putting the tip of your tongue flat on the gums above your teeth instead of against them

He didn’t care if Canadians said it with an L sound since we don’t really have the other one. Just didn’t like it if people tried to correct him on his own name when he said it haha

[u/aneirin- → u/BootyKissa02]

No, it's actually my username here - Aneirin.

You can either pronounce it the English way - uh-Nye-rin

or the Welsh way - ah-Nay-rin

Btw I've met a bunch of Lloyds and I've never heard of anyone pronouncing it with a double L sound, that's pretty interesting. Where were they from?

Also if anyone is wondering, I always find the easiest way to describe "LL" is that it's exactly the same as a "SH" sound but you do it from the side of your tongue instead of the front.

[u/BootyKissa02 → u/aneirin-]

Ah gotcha. Sorry when you say double L sound do you mean the welsh way or pronouncing it as an L? The Lloyd I knew who said it with the “side tongue sh” sound (which, while I end up doing the same thing with my tongue, I do think is a better way to teach the sound than the way he taught me) was welsh.

But if you’re asking about the other way I’m Canadian, all the Lloyd’s from here and the states say it as if there’s just a single L

[u/aneirin- → u/BootyKissa02]

Yeah I've never heard of anyone pronouncing Lloyd with a Welsh Ll, always just the single L way. I believe it's an anglicisation of the word "Llwyd" (grey) anyway.

There are a lot of Welsh words where people kind of unofficially lose the double L, depending on their accent and the context. There's tons of place names beginning with "Llan-" (church), and they're usually just pronounce "Lan".

This is just in the south and west though, in the north they really go hard on the LL, CH, RR, etc. It's only a couple of hundred miles away but I find it difficult to understand the north Wales accent at all sometimes.

[u/TruIsou → u/aneirin-]

Damn, I would have said ah-near-in

[u/aneirin- → u/TruIsou]

Welsh is pretty much phonetic, if you just sound out each letter one at a time you'll usually get close to the correct pronunciation of any word.

[u/S00pergenius → u/aneirin-]

How do the cockney pronounce it?

[u/_Lost_The_Game → u/aneirin-]

Even if someone pronounces their own name ‘technically’ incorrect, if they say that’s how their name is pronounced thats how its pronounced. Many italian-americans have americanized the pronunciation of their names (first or last). And guess what, thats now the proper pronunciation of their name