British names: Torquil?!? and Diana Wynne Jones

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "granaiogirl"
<granaiogirl at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "terryljames76"
> <terryljames at h...> wrote:
> > I was reading "The Edge" by Dick Francis last night, and the main 
> > character's name is Tor, short for Torquil.  ....  How would you
> > pronounce it?
> > 
> >
> > Terry LJ 
> 
> It is not a 'common' name in the UK.
> I can tell you that though I have lived in England all my life, the
> only place I have ever met anyone called Torquil is in the pages of
> bad novels. ....

bboy_mn:

So is it...

Tore-Kill

or

Tore-qwill?

Just curious.

bboy_mn