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Yr Wyddfa

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Re: Yr Wyddfa

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Postby stewamax » May 2nd, 2021, 7:00 pm

Rhyd6 wrote:OH and I are going to Sarn Meyllteyrn ... and of course popping over to Anglesey.

It is well worth R6's [re]reading the chapters of George Borrow's 'Wild Wales' that provide a classic invocation of what Ynys Môn and it inhabitants were like in the 1850s. And he managed to get by in North Wales at least - and even attend church services in Welsh "with edification" - without being able to pronounce ll correctly; he spoke fluent Spanish and seemed to think that the Spanish 'll' (a slightly guttural 'y') and Welsh version were said similarly.

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Re: Yr Wyddfa

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Postby servodude » May 3rd, 2021, 12:44 am

mark88man wrote:
servodude wrote:Are they going to twin it with Milngavie?


I'm not quite sure how you pronounce that - I will have to give it a mull, guy! (or do you prefer dude!)


That's certainly how i would - always a u
as in "The film about the worst girl in the world" has four (none in about mind)

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