Enw barddol Owain a dal bod Holltydd Blewynnau 
No, making sure people on this site have advice about pronunciation from people who have experience of talking in Welsh to people. The whole part of the thread was about whether it is one or two syllables, so thatâs rather an odd comment of yours. You donât feel inclined to learn from it - fine. Let other people do so if they wish.
Incidentally, what do you describe Owain as âbarddolâ? It is simply a normal, common Welsh name.
Sorry, I donât follow you. What do you mean?
Ah, I see, you were being insulting.
(I really donât think itâs a good idea to make up silly insulting names for people. That could get into some very stupid territory.)
Nope, making up insulting names for people you barely know is indeed not a tradition here. I doubt it is Cornwall either.
Reacting to the fact I am saying something different to you by doing it simply shows you donât like being corrected.
There is nothing wrong with being wrong, or being corrected- simply try not to say things like people âshouldâ do this or that, especially when you have limited experience in talking to people in Welsh. Thatâs all.
Goodness.
Leave him to it, Bach, you have better things to do with your time! I was raised to believe that âyou should do thisâ was a statement of judgement of what was correct behaviour, but in those days âarguablyâ meant âperhapsâ or âpossiblyâ, now it seems to mean âpretty certainlyâ, so if English changes so fast, heaven help my Welsh!
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No idea what h.dd means (and it doesnât matter!) but as long as people realise itâs two syllables in careful speech, but some/many people and some/many circumstances mean it can sound various degrees of closeness to one (as is the case for any two vowels, really), but either is fine, then thatâs fine by me and hopefully we can leave it at that.
(Just from my experience over the years talking to people in Welsh.)
Please consider this fair warning
This kind of exchange is not acceptable on the SSiW forum.
Since private discussions havenât got us where we need to be, further examples of this petty bickering will result in temporary bans.
You brought up what English word you thought it was derived from. I responded to that.
I think they are different words, but if you are as tired of this conversion as I have suddenly become, thatâs fine by me.
I agree. Thw purpose of this forum is to foment the study and use of the Welsh language and should not descend into bickering.
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Sian credu fy mod in darllen hon!
Sain credu!