Welsh place names.

[Leekbrookgull]

Caught this on R4 this morning,sure many are differcult to pronounce but thats no reason to change it. It,s history and its telling you something about the location.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35219763

 

[Frutos]

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[hitony]

Just do away with ALL welsh road signs, doubled up info on forms etc etc........waste of money and a waste of time................I have not a clue of the percentage but a vast majority of Welsh people can do no more than utter a few minor sayings in Welsh...........its pointless!!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just do away with ALL welsh road signs, doubled up info on forms etc etc........waste of money and a waste of time................I have not a clue of the percentage but a vast majority of Welsh people can do no more than utter a few minor sayings in Welsh...........its pointless!!

Like lower league football clubs, playing in unsuitable rented accomodation, possibly an athletics stadium. Let them BURN. Innit.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Piece of cake

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Just do away with ALL welsh road signs, doubled up info on forms etc etc........waste of money and a waste of time................I have not a clue of the percentage but a vast majority of Welsh people can do no more than utter a few minor sayings in Welsh...........its pointless!!

Last time I was in North Wales, when I walked into a shop they were talking in English, when they realised I was English they started talking in Welsh.
This was in Betws-y-coed and the surrounding area, nice place to visit though.

 

[atfc village]

ynysybwl was always my favorite when i spent a year working in the valleys.

 

[hitony]

Piece of cake

Having lived here for 31 years, I can actually say it, but those that know me in the real world will tell you that I sound very cockerneee

Oh its pronounced.....cumb est with

 

[hitony]

Last time I was in North Wales, when I walked into a shop they were talking in English, when they realised I was English they started talking in Welsh.
This was in Betws-y-coed and the surrounding area, nice place to visit though.

As you say thats more north wales, i live in very much south wales, in north wales they are well known for their ignorance in doing things like that.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

ynysybwl was always my favorite when i spent a year working in the valleys.

That ones easy its pronounced Ynysybwl.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Piece of cake

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That's an easy one!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

ynysybwl was always my favorite when i spent a year working in the valleys.

And it's only 15 miles from Ynysddu, if you go via Ystrad Mynach.

The point is, though, that these places have only one name. There isn't an English equivalent or translation.

 

[atfc village]

That ones easy its pronounced Ynysybwl.

We used to call it Aniseed Ball.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Thats more north wales, i live in very much south wales, in north wales they are well known for their ignorance in doing things like that.

Ah, I thought you meant the whole of Wales, last time I was in Swansea I never heard one word spoke in Welsh.
Or when we were in Cardiff for the play off final.
Do they not speak some Welsh up in the valleys, that's still South Wales isn't it?

 

[hitony]

ynysybwl was always my favorite when i spent a year working in the valleys.

I've just spent the last year working near there.............for those that don't know its pronounced .....un isa bull (nearest i can get to it! )

 

[hitony]

Ah, I thought you meant the whole of Wales, last time I was in Swansea I never heard one word spoke in Welsh.
Or when we were in Cardiff for the play off final.
Do they not speak some Welsh up in the valleys, that's still South Wales isn't it?

You won't here welsh spoken fluently in many places in south wales, many will do certain sayings like Bor a dah (Good Morning) or Prin how da (good afternoon) I've spelt both in a way they can be pronounced in english, i wouldnt know the welsh way of spelling it without looking it up, I work in swansea and your more likely to hear brummies and londoners than welsh...

Yes the valleys is very much south wales.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Its easier to get the pronunciation right if you have just come out of the dentist having had a couple of teeth pulled out.

 

[atfc village]

In the year i worked in the valleys you'd get the odd language switch when we English went to a pub .The only major bother we had was more up country in Llandrindod Wells,2 of us were in trouble till the 10 others working with us turned up.Even the Pool table got turned over.

 

[hitony]

And it's only 15 miles from Ynysddu, if you go via Ystrad Mynach.

The point is, though, that these places have only one name. There isn't an English equivalent or translation.[/QUOTE

In-ess-do = Ynysddu ............ustrad munarch = Ystrad Mynarch ..........my versions are how they are pronounced, obviously not a translation.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Aberystwyth is probably the strangest place I have visited in the UK.
Miles and miles of nothing but green hills and fields and then, suddenly, a fair sized town with a university and everything, talk about a captive audience, the pubs could charge £10 a pint, its not as if you could just drive/taxi/bus or train to the nearest town for a night out, its light years away.