Ysgythysgymlngwchgwch Bryggy.

[northernladyuk]

QED. You English really ought to learn a little more about your country...

Ynys Mon is the original name of Anglesey (another English-enforced name...). AM is "Assmebly Member". Rhun is an old Welsh forename and "ap Iowerth" is "the son of Iowerth" in the same way that MacTavish is the son of Tavish.

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I doubt Ynys Môn is the original name or even the original proto-Welsh name. It is the modern. Welsh name. We know the Latin name was Mona so we can assume the indigenous name in the first century was similar.

[barrydidit]

What's parochial idiot in Welsh?

In my experience "Twat" would probably cover it. "Twmffat parochial" at a push, but i'd lean towards the former.

Fun fact - Ynys Mon is also known as 'mam cymru', or mother of wales. On account that it looks (ever so slightly) like a head.

[NotAllThere]

Looks more like a sheep to me.

[barrydidit]

Looks more like a sheep to me.

It's not a Rorschach test, you can say it looks like a disembodied woman's head if you like.

[Mordac]

QED. You English really ought to learn a little more about your country...

Ynys Mon is the original name of Anglesey (another English-enforced name...). AM is "Assmebly Member". Rhun is an old Welsh forename and "ap Iowerth" is "the son of Iowerth" in the same way that MacTavish is the son of Tavish.

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No mate. Welsh has 7 vowels. a,e,i,o,u,w and y. It's different language from English; the letters have different sounds. Just as as in German, "w" is pronounced "vee", or in French "h" isn't even pronounced.

Thanks for the Welsh lesson chaps, I'm sure it'll be extremely useful, er...never.

[malvolio]

Thanks for the Welsh lesson chaps, I'm sure it'll be extremely useful, er...never.

Almost certainly true, since most English have only a limited understanding of the meaning of heritage. If you want to waste an hour or two, try to translate "Hwyl" into English...

However, we may have educated one or two to think a little harder before blithely slagging off something they don't understand

[BR14]

This is far more entertaining than i had hoped

[stek]

Welsh for oven is 'poppy' - and Welsh for microwave oven is 'popty-ping' - classic!

At current clientco lift goes all American - 'Car D', the ones at DVLA Morriston would go all 'Flwr Pedwan' or something which I think was 'Fourteenth Floor'

[barrydidit]

Wales is also a unit of measurement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...surement#Wales

Equal to 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi), the country of Wales is used in phrases such as "an area the size of Wales" or "twice the area of Wales".[25][26] England is 6.275 times the size of Wales, and Scotland is roughly four times the size of Wales. Ireland is four times larger than Wales, and France is about twenty-five times larger.

In older British and Commonwealth atlases, it was common to show a known area at the same scale, and the usual area to show was either Wales for smaller scales, or Great Britain for larger areas.[citation needed]

The British comedy show The Eleven O'Clock Show parodied the use of this measurement, by introducing a news article about an earthquake in Wales, stating that an area the size of Wales was affected. The Radio 4 programme More or Less introduced the idea of "kilowales" – an area 1,000 times the size of Wales. The Register introduced the nanowales (20.78 m2).[27]

The measurement has been adopted by rainforest conservation charity Size of Wales, aiming to conserve an area of rainforest equating to the area of Wales. On 1 March 2013, the charity announced that they had succeeded[28] in conserving an area of rainforest the size of Wales and will continue to operate to sustain and increase the protected area.[29]

[malvolio]

How about Jac Codi Baw (literally "Jack Lifts Dirt" for a - you guessed it - JCB...