What's in a name?

In about 1979-1983 or there about, the late Daily Post columnist Ivor Wynne Jones criticised me in one of his typically anti-Welsh columns regarding something I had said or done in the nationalist cause, in which he referred to me as the Rev Dr Allan ap Hugh. I dropped a note to the Post to say that I was not a Rev or a Dr and that I am Alwyn ap Huw rather than Ivor's interpretation of my name.

Ivor, being Ivor, couldn't accept that he had made a mistake and retorted:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - as would the name of the foulest stench of the briar smell as foul!

I appologise to Duncan Higgitt for getting his name wrong in my last post.

Having said that, I hate to admit it, but perhaps Ivor had a point!

Whats in a name?

Blog surfing, again, I came across this interesting post that shows name meanings when they are written in other languages. Amongst them are:

Adam (Arabic) skin (I hope that it is thick skin!)

Alan (Indonesian) comedian (What more can I say?)

Jim (Korean) baggage.

Alwyn is not in the list, but I do happen to know that it is the Anglo-Saxon word for a faithful and trusted friend!