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Or any pub anywhere ever

Welsh also doubled down on the milkynesd in its word for galaxy - galaeth!

C11 (and earlier) Welsh borrowing from Latin, while C16 Welsh borrows from English also seems logical?

I wonder if the swydd/sir difference is accounted for by time? The English ‘swyddi’ go back to Norman times, while the Welsh ‘siroedd’ didn’t come into existence for another 500 years. Maybe they weren’t considered to be the same thing at the time and so a different word was used for them?

Amwythig is the Welsh name for Shrewsbury, so Swydd Amwythig is Shrewsburyshire. Of course, some of these Welsh names (for towns, if not for counties) will be older than the English ones…

So how would they have pronounced ‘Roman’? Ruman?

Or a carton of milk

Happy 'don't pay my council tax for two months' time for all who celebrate

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Football really brings out the worst in me, in that there is no other context where this sentence would bring me quite so much glee.

Mind bender:

It was less time between the first nuclear weapon and the first steel sword than it was between the first recorded copper sword and the first recorded steel sword.

I’ve neard it pronounced with a ‘v’ in south Wales/valleys

‘Brat’ is still a Welsh word for apron

Wedi ei weld ar BS! Sut mai ers talwm?

Lle mae’r pecyn Cymraeg?

Os ti’n ffeindio nhw, rho wybod!

So close

Diweddariad am fy mlog cerdded a chrwydro, Silwria. Ydi, mae’n fyw - jest abowt!

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Traed brain ydyw trydar,
Heb hid hed ei hadar.

(helo fyd / hello world!)

I’m keen to know as well. Annoying having to start again isn’t it - suspect some effort will be needed to complete the ‘jump’

Are they like the old lists?