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How do you pronounce it?
Un-us-uh-bull. Emphasis is on the bull. Ynys is Welsh for island so in Welsh Barry Island (for all you Gavin and Stacey fans) is Ynys y Barri. It can't be Barry with a y or it'd sound like Bar-uh in Welsh rather than Bar-ee.

I had a pause from the other end of the phone (I'd called to find my nearest B&Q) then "I can't pronounce THAT. It hasn't got any vowels!!" ROFL

Y and W are vowels in Welsh. 
Cariad
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Does your  user name sound different to how it reads? Cheers for the info.
Nope. Try to roll the r in the middle...and emphasis is on the "ad" Cari-ad. It means beloved or darling. I was chatting to my daughter back in 2003 when trying to think of a username and had just called her that. 

Can I just add I do not speak Welsh.  I'd have liked to but when I was in school there was quite a snotty attitude bout it and given I had an English father and a non-Welsh speaking mother from Pembrokeshire (She's a Cornish/Welsh cross ) I was dismissed as a not wrth teaching.

t's all changed now - son is in year 10 and daughter year 9 and both have Welsh as compulsory to GCSE. 

Blizzie -  can  you pronounce it? 
Cariad

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