[HP4GU] Dai, the name and questions of lineage--coincidence?

[Dai Evans]

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Denise R" <gypsycaine at y...> wrote:
> OH, Dai, It was nice to see your name in Quidditch!  Is it a 
popular name in
> England?  (See About the Author) :)

Oh god, hold me back.

No, in fact not an introduction goes by on this side of the border 
without me having to explain to some stupid englishman that I'm not 
some hardcore goth (Dai is, incidentally pronounced "die", for those 
of you that have been getting it wrong).

In the land of peace and pleanty, however, it seems like every third 
man shares my remarkable assignment.

Dai is, of course, short for David, which is a very often used (but 
in no way common) name all over Britain. But it was only the Welsh 
who had the refinement and the sophistication to adapt it to my 
chosen pseudo.


Dai