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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Am off to Wales Sunday. Any Welsh expressions I can learn beforehand?
don't worry the majority of people in wales cannot speak Welsh."
Such a negative attitude. How about some encouragement? No wonder there’s so much abuse aimed at Welsh with attitudes like this |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Welsh speaking is always encouraged in North at least. Probably the same in South. Have a nice break in sunny Wales OP you won't want to go home  "
There’s good and bad everywhere, but I’d say it’s mostly positive when people make the effort, especially in more Welsh areas |
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I've lived in South Wales for about 10 years now and still speak only a few words, can understand a few more than I speak but not many at all,the village I work in has a lot of Welsh speaking locals and its lovely to hear them speaking and keeping welsh language alive but I had to go speech therapy to master English so I'm not sure il ever master Welsh
But I'm sure if when you engage with any local Welsh speakers where you are visiting they would be impressed and more than happy to teach you some basics if you were to ask |
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"Am off to Wales Sunday. Any Welsh expressions I can learn beforehand?
don't worry the majority of people in wales cannot speak Welsh."
Mae digon o ni sy'n medru, ac yn gwerthfawrogi pobl sy'n ceisio siarad ei'n mamiaeth. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"North or South? We speak different dialects
South, Pembrokeshire "
Might as well go to England lol nobody speaks Welsh down there and surprisingly people actually sound English |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"North or South? We speak different dialects
South, Pembrokeshire
Might as well go to England lol nobody speaks Welsh down there and surprisingly people actually sound English "
Go to north Pembs and tell them they don’t speak it… |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you mean Ceredigion? I know they all speak it there.
No, I meant north Pembs. Crymych etc"
Yeah once you take the turning from penblewin roundabout it all turns Welsh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is 
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?"
Haha, microwave. Yes it is true  |
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?"
Avon as in Stratford upon Avon is from the Welsh afon.
Popty ping is a meicrodon in South west Wales at least |
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Avon as in Stratford upon Avon is from the Welsh afon.
Popty ping is a meicrodon in South west Wales at least"
Popty is a north walian word for oven, ffwrn in South walian. |
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?"
Penguin. Corgi. Cumbria. Bow. Coombe. Bard. Iron.
All derived from Welsh apparently. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?"
No, it’s a made up nonsense to insult the language. It was used for a while but didn’t get claimed properly |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Avon as in Stratford upon Avon is from the Welsh afon.
Popty ping is a meicrodon in South west Wales at least
Popty is a north walian word for oven, ffwrn in South walian. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Penguin. Corgi. Cumbria. Bow. Coombe. Bard. Iron.
All derived from Welsh apparently. "
Spot on |
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"I want to get away from the English! Looks lovely though
Lol you'll find some welshies there, "shwmae" is our way of saying hello how are you, in West Wales "
When I lived in Caerdydd folk used to say "Arwuththew" when they met. |
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By *batMan
over a year ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"Just say Yaki dah when you go to the pub and you shouldn't go too far wrong..."
There's no such phrase in Welsh! Did you mean "Iechyd Da"? (it means "good health" and is sometimes used as "Cheers"
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By *batMan
over a year ago
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"I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?"
Dad. From the word Tad (father). Isn't it great that so many English speakers use a Welsh word as their first ever spoken word!!!
Gbat |
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"I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Dad. From the word Tad (father). Isn't it great that so many English speakers use a Welsh word as their first ever spoken word!!!
Gbat "
Love this fact   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There really is a place called llandewi brevi 
We don't have v in our alphabet "
Nor k, q, x or z. And only a j when the word comes from another language |
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"I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Dad. From the word Tad (father). Isn't it great that so many English speakers use a Welsh word as their first ever spoken word!!!
Gbat
Love this fact "
Sadly it is not right. Certainly Tad is Welsh for father but it is also in Breton. Many languages have similar words for father because a "da" sound is usually one if the first syllables spoken by a baby. Like ma or mama. |
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"I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Dad. From the word Tad (father). Isn't it great that so many English speakers use a Welsh word as their first ever spoken word!!!
Gbat
Love this fact
Sadly it is not right. Certainly Tad is Welsh for father but it is also in Breton. Many languages have similar words for father because a "da" sound is usually one if the first syllables spoken by a baby. Like ma or mama. "
Breton, Welsh and Cornish come from the Brythonic branch of the celtic languages so it's unsurprising we have the same words. Though the English word was father and then dad was adopted.
Just because it sounds like baby talk, doesn't necessarily mean we Brythonic Celts didn't adopt it first and then the English language. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"orite butt
tidy
b'there
now in a minute
bewt
lush
...all very much vallyisms though, you might get a few frowns out West!  "
made me giggle..but soooo true! |
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Penguin. Corgi. Cumbria. Bow. Coombe. Bard. Iron.
All derived from Welsh apparently. "
Ty.
I defy anyone to say penguin in a welsh accent just once it’s like eating a doughnut and not liking you lips. It just can’t be done. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All I think I know is “Popty ping” and I don’t even know how true that is
I wonder if there any true welsh words commonly used in the English language ?
Penguin. Corgi. Cumbria. Bow. Coombe. Bard. Iron.
All derived from Welsh apparently.
Ty.
I defy anyone to say penguin in a welsh accent just once it’s like eating a doughnut and not liking you lips. It just can’t be done. "
We say it with a Welsh accent every day in Wales |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Then you are just proving my point and then some "
Huh? Utterly ridiculous. Like a Welsh person saying you sound like you’ve got golf balls jammed in your mouth 24/7 - makes zero sense. Back in your box that side of the bridge fella |
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By *batMan
over a year ago
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Sadly it is not right. Certainly Tad is Welsh for father but it is also in Breton. Many languages have similar words for father because a "da" sound is usually one if the first syllables spoken by a baby. Like ma or mama. "
Nothing you’ve said here makes my post wrong. Welsh and Breton are from the same group of languages.
Gbat |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sadly it is not right. Certainly Tad is Welsh for father but it is also in Breton. Many languages have similar words for father because a "da" sound is usually one if the first syllables spoken by a baby. Like ma or mama.
Nothing you’ve said here makes my post wrong. Welsh and Breton are from the same group of languages.
Gbat "
Spot on Gbat |
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