The Welsh language is our revenge on the English

It’s not the best party trick in the world, I admit, but if you ever need anyone to recite Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at top speed, then I’m your woman. Yet shamefully, although I’m the daughter of a bilingual mother, my attempts to speak the language of heaven remain pretty rudimentary.
Still, I absolutely support the decision by councils last week not to insert hyphens into Welsh placenames, in order for the English to be able to pronounce them more easily. Abermad would have become Aber-mad, and Felinfach would be Felin-fach, for example.
The English have spent centuries imposing their will on the Welsh both by the sword and from Westminster. That is, when they are not making those endless jokes about male‑voice choirs, daffodils and sheep at Wales’s expense. The only revenge the Welsh can take is via the language – but what a powerful tool it can be.
It may not compensate for all the pain of the past, but in truth what can be better than watching someone from England stuttering their way into the land of my fathers, painfully mangling the dd or ll consonants and stumbling over the mutations. And only then, of course, do you point out that the name was actually constructed as a publicity stunt back in Victorian times – and you can just say Llanfair PG instead.

There is no need to anglicise the Welsh spelling of words.

"Araf".
That's my limit.

"Look, I'm sorry about R-R-"

"RACHEL!!!!"

What about the Welshifying of English words, like Cardiff?

It is an odd language. Take this phrase:

"Rwy'n llaeth fy geifr bob dydd."

It looks like someone just slammed their head against a keyboard, but I guess that's why I like the Welsh language, despite knowing virtually nothing about it. It's different.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/wales/11352475/The-Welsh-language-is-our-revenge-on-the-English.html

The Welsh language is thriving in Wales- alongside, rather than instead, of English- and I love those long Welsh words that are unpronouncable for an Englishman like me. They're excellent, and they make Wales Wales. I wouldn't have it any other way. There is no need to anglicise the Welsh spelling of words.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/wales/11352475/The-Welsh-language-is-our-revenge-on-the-English.html

I love those long Welsh words that are unpronouncable for an Englishman like me. They're excellent, and they make Wales Wales. I wouldn't have it any other way. There is no need to anglicise the Welsh spelling of words.

"Araf".
That's my limit.

My neighbour's dog always says "araf" to me. I didn't know he was just speaking Welsh all this time

"This isn't about what I want, it's about what's FAIR!"

It would be "llaethu". "Llaeth" is a noun and "llaethu" would be the verb form (llefrith in North Wales).


Vocabulary differs quite a lot between the North and South.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/wales/11352475/The-Welsh-language-is-our-revenge-on-the-English.html



The Welsh language is thriving in Wales- alongside, rather than instead, of English- and I love those long Welsh words that are unpronouncable for an Englishman like me. They're excellent, and they make Wales Wales. I wouldn't have it any other way. There is no need to anglicise the Welsh spelling of words.