tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:32838Yr Afr SanctaiddTrip trapping across your bridgethedivinegoat2011-05-08T18:01:48Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:32838:31437It's probably welsh...2011-05-08T18:01:48Z2011-05-08T18:01:48Zcontemplativepublic0Pertinent to my <a href="http://thedivinegoat.dreamwidth.org/31048.html">post last night</a> and tangential to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://shanaqui.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://shanaqui.dreamwidth.org/'><b>shanaqui</b></a></span>'s post <a href="http://shanaqui.dreamwidth.org/986346.html">"Prepared to take the consequences (growing up Welsh in England)"</a><br /><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5jGKbGy2AMTJ0IIqR9W1S5">Skep - Security Aberystwyth</a> (Spotify Link) (<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/security-aberystwyth/id281096969?i=281097149">iTunes Link</a>)<br /><br /><em>I assume his hands did not slip on the keyboard when typing where in the UK he is.<br /><br />You could probably put it into google, and be looking right down on his head.<br />Yeah, right 'cos it's probably just him.<br /><br />Only the welsh can pronounce welsh names.<br /><br />We cannot believe how many people told us how to pronounce the unpronounceable...</em><br /><br />I'm reminded of when <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/08/wales-brief-photoblog-2/">Phil Plait got butthurt</a> because people told him off for making fun of Welsh sign posts.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thedivinegoat&ditemid=31437" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:32838:25490Yno, cynhaliwyd ymryson,2011-01-22T20:29:06Z2011-01-22T20:29:06Znostalgicpublic40So I grew up thinking that this was a word everybody knew irrespective of whether they were welsh or not, but seeing as I've now had a fourth person who's just recently* moved to Wales ask me what an eisteddfod is, I'm not so sure. So any excuse for a DW poll hey?<br /><br /><div><a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=5709">View Poll: Eisteddfodau</a></div><br /><br /><small>The best thing about the Bristol Eisteddfod was that three years running I got to hit Sarah Jones with a foam-stuffed sock truncheon. (We were friends in that 'we'd hate each other but there's no one else to be friends with' way.)</small><br /><br />Please feel free to link to your friends as I'd love to get as many people answering as possible.<br /><br /><em>Yno, cynhaliwyd ymryson, a gwahoddwyd beirdd a cherddorion o bob cwr o'r wlad i gystadlu yn erbyn ei gilydd.</em><br /><br />* recently, as in within the last couple of years. ie more recently than me.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thedivinegoat&ditemid=25490" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments