Oh and another question

[scifirenegade]

A few months ago, I asked around on Tumblr for the origin of Ray's surname. Since I don't remember it ever being said onscreen, and Archive of Our Own has tagged her as "Rachel "Ray" Defwydd".

Checked the novelisation for Delta and the Bannermen and couldn't find any references to it.

I think it may have been some fanmade thing, but I don't know. Ray fic is so hard to come by.

Any ideas?

Crossposted to seventhdoctor

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, I've always wondered that - I always assumed it was some EU thing somewhere, but TARDIS wiki would have that all right if it were. (I peeked behind the scenes at the comments on the AO3 tag to see if someone had left a source for using that, but nothing. My guess would be that maybe at the time it came in, that's how it was on TARDIS Wiki, if there have been deletions since?)

Pronounciation would be sort of "Devwyth/Devouwyth" except probably not exactly quite like that, but near enough. It's not really a typical Welsh surname, either, especially not for South Wales.

[scifirenegade]

Thank you for the pronunciation thing, either way.

That surname was indeed on her wiki page! And then deleted because of lack of sources.