Minnie_the_Minx
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rhys gethin said:
I can just about manage it, if I haven't got throatful of phlegm
My ex-b/f's first language was Welsh. He was from a little hamlet near Llandyssul. Bit too quiet for me
How do you say the name 'Myfanwy'?
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I can just about manage it, if I haven't got throatful of phlegm
My ex-b/f's first language was Welsh. He was from a little hamlet near Llandyssul. Bit too quiet for me
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Dubversion said:is that not correct? i'm sure in Under Milk Wood there's someone called Myfanwy and it's pronounced like that.
or was it Ivor The Engine?
You are thinking of Jones the steam
rhys gethin
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Minnie_the_Minx said:I can just about manage it, if I haven't got throatful of phlegm
My ex-b/f's first language was Welsh. He was from a little hamlet near Llandyssul. Bit too quiet for me
My Mother's family came from Llwyndafydd, up the coast a bit. So: clearing the throat is about it. Most English can't say 'loch' or 'Bach', but it you listen to the experts say those, that'll help. How matey are you and the ex? It is easy to demonstrate 'ch', hard to explain.
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mwgdrwg said:You're so wrong it's laughable.
The Welsh F sounds like the English V. So, the middle bit sounds like Van not Fan.
This is the mistake 99.9% of non-Welsh speakers make, even on that Little Britain show.
I know what I'm talking about here because I'm Welsh first language, and Myfanwy is my daughters name.
edit - ah, littlebabyjesus beat me to it.
It's a very pretty name
My neighbour's kid is called Bryn and mine's middle name will be Welsh but not the first one - no one can pronounce or spell them properly in England
Minnie_the_Minx
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rhys gethin said:
Haven't seen him for years. He came from the type of area where English was NOT spoken
and he taught me to count up from one to ten. I'd always have to pause and get me act together though when it came to chwech He called me Bach all the time
Minnie_the_Minx
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trashpony said:It's a very pretty name
My neighbour's kid is called Bryn and mine's middle name will be Welsh but not the first one - no one can pronounce or spell them properly in England
Well that's silly. No English are EVER going to learn to spell it if the only place they see it is in Wales.
Educate the English
rhys gethin
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trashpony said:It's a very pretty name
My neighbour's kid is called Bryn and mine's middle name will be Welsh but not the first one - no one can pronounce or spell them properly in England
Yup - It is like not being able to pronounce that Indian film-star's name on Big Brother - - it shows how superior they are, I suppose, though I can't, unfortunately, understand what they grunt and gargle as they bully people.
rhys gethin
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Minnie_the_Minx said:Well that's silly. No English are EVER going to learn to spell it if the only place they see it is in Wales.
Educate the English
Fair play, I do my best, but most of 'em don't want to know.
Minnie_the_Minx
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rhys gethin said:
Oh yeah, Shilpa Shetty. You'd think if you couldn't remember Shetty, you'd think as Shitty as a reminder and not popadom
Minnie_the_Minx
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trashpony said:That's why it'll be his middle name - education but at a level that won't really piss him off if it gets spelt wrong
Be Welsh, be Proud! Give him a good old Welsh name
Minnie_the_Minx
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trashpony said:I could name him after my neighbour - Meredith. Or my grandad - Gwilym. I don't think he'd thank me though
hm, on second thoughts....
A nice modern Welsh name then, if such a thing exists
rhys gethin
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trashpony said:I could name him after my neighbour - Meredith. Or my grandad - Gwilym. I don't think he'd thank me though
Meredydd.
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"Eins, zwei, drei, funf!" said Callie, fearlessly.Callie said:whats the welsh for seven, eight and nine??
I can count up to six but always get stuck and lapse into german
gets coat and runs like buggery to Eglwswrw.
Minnie_the_Minx
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mwgdrwg said:un
dau
tri
pedwar
pump
chwech
saith
wyth = I thought it was oith?
naw
deg
Da iawn.
wyth = I thought it was oith?
Maybe Welsh b/f was illiterate 
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trashpony said:It's a very pretty name
My neighbour's kid is called Bryn and mine's middle name will be Welsh but not the first one - no one can pronounce or spell them properly in England
I was nearly called that, after one of my great aunts. And one of my brother's names is Bryn (short for Brinley btw if that's on your potential baby names list
). Oh, and one of my great uncle's was Llewellyn but he got called Llew most of the time, tis a bit of a mouthful innit LilMissHissyFit
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mwgdrwg said:Neither really.
Say the word "Wirral". Drop the "rral" and that's it.
Muh-Van-Wi(rral)
Which area are you from Mwgdrwg?
here it would be pronounced Muh-Van-Wee ( instead of Wi-hard I sound)
LilMissHissyFit
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mwgdrwg said:
aaah norf Sarf differences then
