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Jantra wrote:^^^^thisMr Blue Sky wrote:I'm afraid your attitude is akin to language fascism. The people who live in a place get to pronounce it how they want to, not some outsiders with a superior attitude.
It's canton
So what about Welsh speakers who live in such places? Do they have to pronounce it in a way that sounds wrong to their ears because you don't like the Welsh pronunciation?
Living in Cwmbran, a town where every area has a solely Welsh name but very few Welsh speakers to pronounce them Im well used to the 'bastardisation' of such pronunciations. Henllys sounds like 'Henlas', Pontnewydd is 'Pontnewid', Llanyrafon is 'Lanyravon' (or 'Lanny') and as for Croesyceiliog...well let's just say that whoever thought that was a good name in a town full of monoglots must have been crazy
But it would be insane for me to go around pronouncing them in those ways, even though that's what comes normal to most of my neighbours. It would mean I would have to switch off the part of my brain that actually reads everyday words like 'Pont' and 'Newydd' and instead teach myself to mispronounce them. Can you not see how bizzare that would feel?
And that's in Cwmbran, where there are very few Welsh speakers. Pontcanna has a ton of them.