List of Marilyns in Wales - Pronunciation

Pronunciation

To aid understanding of how the Welsh hills' names should be spoken, the table gives a basic but workable guide to their pronunciation by English speakers (but not for hills where the name is already in English or the spelling has been Anglicised). The transcriptions are generally self-explanatory, but a few clarifications are inevitable. See also Pronunciation of Welsh.

• dh represents a soft th, as in then.
• (hl) represents the 'Welsh ll', like an h and an l said together.
• (hr) is similar but with an r.
• ə represents the schwa, as in butter or above. Watch out for this symbol and pronounce it with an ə sound.
• oo represents the short oo in foot. Watch out for this one.
• kh represents the hard ch sound as in Scottish loch.
• ow rhymes with English cow, and likewise owr rhymes with English hour.
• When vowels are stated followed by an apostrophe at the end of words, this is an indication that they should be kept short, as in the French 'ca va', and similarly with e and i.
• Finally, 'iw' at the end of a word should be read literally as a short i followed by a w sound.