You could call him Penguin so it's not too much of a difference to get used to!
Be brilliant to shout that across the field!
This!
in accounts of voyages to the southern oceans, but no one has ever ascertained where it came from. A narrative of 1582 noted ‘The countrymen call them Penguins (which seemeth to be a Welsh name)’, and in 1613 John Selden speculated that the name came from Welsh pen gwyn ‘white head’. Etymologists since have not been able to come up with a better guess than this, but it is at odds with the fact that the great auk had a mainly black head, and so do penguins. The earliest known reference to the word (from 1578) mentions the birds being found on an ‘island named Penguin’, off Newfoundland, so it could be that it was originally the name of the island (perhaps ‘white (i.e. snow-covered) headland’ rather than of the bird. However, a further objection to this theory is that a combination based on Welsh pen gwyn would have produced penwyn, not penguin
He looks a lovely little chap - I love the name Penwyn
