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To: blam

BBC history team solves riddle of Llywelyn

Some linguist figured out how to pronounce it?

3 posted on 02/05/2006 3:23:09 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)

To: Gordongekko909

" Some linguist figured out how to pronounce it?"

roughly, "Lew-ellen"

7 posted on 02/05/2006 4:00:37 PM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")

To: Gordongekko909

I think it is lou-ell'in.

I recognize it from Cadfael, the series about a Benedictine monk who solves murders in, what, 12th-century England?

16 posted on 02/05/2006 6:08:08 PM PST by TheGeezer

To: Gordongekko909

like thlew-ellen with the first syllable like you are spitting.

19 posted on 02/05/2006 9:03:15 PM PST by Dave Elias

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