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Unread 24 Sep 2006, 20:23   #18
Welshy
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Re: [welsh question]

Is it perhaps slang then? As I've never come across that word - I could phone somebody who would know, but tbh, I'm not that bothered, as I'm sure you're not either etc.

A quick google search reveals...

Less than one hundred years ago the Welsh language was outlawed in Government and Education. Today, there are Welsh schools and all government departments dealing with Wales work in both English and Welsh.
[http://www.eliamep.gr/eliamep/files/...ring_2001.pdf]

Even though the English outlawed the Welsh language, it lived on through the singing, reciting and storytelling.
[http://www.betws-y-coed.net/aboutus.htm]

Welsh language was only (nearly) exterminated when the English outlawed it in the 19th century--not before, not even after Gwynedd fell. Same with Irish and Scots Gaelic. Since then, they are (however slowly) making a comback.
[http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slack.../whatnot.html]

The native language of Welsh was outlawed by it's English overlords, yet still survived. Some by ancient texts such as the Mabogineon, also by religious tracts and secret writings. Today, there is a resurgence of pride in the native language, and several radio and television stations broadcast in the language.
[http://www.greendragonartist.com/BIwales.htm]

as
a result of the 1536 Act of Union - when Wales officially became part of the
United Kingdom - the use of the Welsh language was banned from public life,
including churches. Scholars and church leaders at the time, worried about
the demise of the Welsh language, set about translating the Bible and the
Book of Common Prayer so that people could read them at home in their mother tongue.

[http://www.wfn.org/2003/07/msg00073.html]

And I'm sure there's plenty more to boot.
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