Jesse, Dylan or Finley

[Batmanandrobin123]

Hey, I think these are our final 3 names.
Baby will be half Irish, growing up down south in the UK and a brother to Rory.
I love Jesse, DH loves Dylan, we both liked Finley but concerned it's very popular.

1Micem0use
Given that you meant " Mae'n sbwriel" - that is an odd expression, and not one a native Welsh speaker would use. Although technically correct, sbwriel is more like litter than rubbish.
The response I would have given would be " Sothach!"

Maen as part of a sentence means it is. Maen ddonial it's funny. Dwin hoffi coffi achos maen ffrothi. I like coffee because its frothy.

To be fair people use different expressions in different parts of Wales :) I can barely understand north wales dialect

no irritating Welsh issues

How racist. Would you say that about an African name? An Indian name?

I love Jesse. The other two are OK but Jesse is gorgeous.

1Micem0use
" Maen" is not " Mae'n".
" Maen ddonial it's funny". No it isn't. Ddonial isn't a welsh word. Funny is Doniol. It's funny is " Mae'n ddoniol"
" Dwin hoffi coffi achos maen ffrothi"? - You meant " Dwi'n hoffi coffi achos mae'n ffrothi"

Ffrothi is a bit dodgy as it is just a phonetic spelling of Frothy.

You are on a hiding to nothing correcting my Welsh. One of us speaks and write much better Welsh than the other.

To be fair people use different expressions in different parts of Wales smile I can barely understand north wales dialect

Sorry 1Micem0use, maen means stone in South Wales too, even when used in a sentence (!?)

Maen = stone
Mae'n = there is/are

YET another example of the VITAL importance of grammar

Ahh, your racism was humourous! That's OK then.

And a personal insult too. You seem nice.

OMG this is like the 'knife' scene in Crocodile Dundee

only with welsh

Oh Readthisearlier I don't know what to say

Nothing is perhaps best.

Racism is not funny. No matter who it's aimed at. That's all I will say on the matter. Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd.

*Gallwch chi siarad neu deall Cymraeg? Fy gymraeg ydy ddim yn bendigedig, maen gwir. Ond dwi ddim yn siarad gymraeg yn y cartref. Astudiais I yn fy ysgol am blant. There I reckon my hen athrawes gymraeg/ old Welsh teacher would be proud"

Ok 1Micem0use. First, well done for trying to speak Welsh. I am fluent and a lifelong speaker. I'm sure your old welsh teacher would be proud of you, and despite having corrected you, at least you are trying.

The bit you wrote has errors, but I understand what you mean. Why don't you go to some classes and brush it up. You obviously have the ability, and remember a lot.

Dylangate!

The point I was making OP is that if you choose Dylan, and anyone gives you a hard time for pronouncing it Dilan then you can tell them the most famous Dylan of all Wales (Dylan Thomas) pronounced his name like that. Also that lots and lots of Welsh Dylans are pronounced Dilan. Especially in South Wales.
You know it's probably a good thing that we're using the Welsh language on here, even if it does involve silly pedantic arguments about apostrophe use and word meaning in a sentence vs alone.
It's a second language learned at school for most people outside of rural farming communities, and different versions of it are taught in schools in the North and South. Nobody should be given shit for not having it as their first language, it's all the more impressive really when someone learns and uses a second language.

if you came from mars and had never seen the world Dylan before, you’d assume it was pronounced Dilan not Duh You wouldn’t, though. If you were Russian Y is pronounced as “oo”, for example. Most English people would know Cymru means Wales, from Plaid Cymru, and be able to make a good guess how the Y is said, even if you know no Welsh.

if you came from mars and had never seen the world Dylan before, you’d assume it was pronounced Dilan not Duh

No you wouldn't you wally! 😂

Most people on tv and radio mispronounce Plaid Cymru.
It really isn't Coomry. It's Cumry (or that's the nearest).

Ynys Mon - it isn't Innes Monn, it's Unnis Moan.

I like Jesse .

I like Dylan I'm slightly biased though.

@Batmanandrobin123 yes it's positive I think when I say I have 2 kids Jesse and Harry, people assume I have a boy and girl and are surprised when I say no 2 boys and they say ah right, and then say Jesse is a lovely name, and then start telling me about Jesse lingard, Jesse metcarff etc oh and the famous Jesse James. I wasn't 100% on the name at first but then it grew on me and he suits the name now he is here.

@Lorddenning1 that's good to hear
I really like it as a name. It sounds cool but it also is a biblical name so has substance too. It's just DH that I have to convince. Did you partner like it? He just seems to be concerned by the girly aspect but I really don't think that's the case anymore as it is getting more popular for boys.
Harry is lovely too.

Racism is not funny. No matter who it's aimed at. That's all I will say on the matter. Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd.

ARGLWYDD MAWR!!!!!

ac y nefoedd fricken' wen!! I AM WELSH - for a start. So I am not a person who has a problem with Welshness, or Welsh names, or anything Welsh. Now I appreciate what might, if you both weren't so bloody dense, be a reasonable point about the kind of 'casual' disparaging talk often aimed at Welsh/Welshness, which oooh isn't bigoted because only a joke etc.

But my jokey comment was directly referencing the spat immediately upthread on how to pronounce Dylan. So my 'joke' is that great, this name is not Welsh, so no annoying Welsh pronunciation issues for the amazing new name of GUYHUGH (are. you. seeing. the. joke. yet)

Good lord. So po faced, so unintelligent, so unable to join the dots, so lacking common sense. And not the slightest smidge of hwyl either.

More annoying than a mispronounced Dylan. And THAT'S ANNOYING.

I have a Jesse who is 3 and I still think the name is amazing and have yet to come across another.