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Could the “Lost” Islands of Ancient Welsh Folklore Really Have Existed? Scientists Say Yes
Scitech Daily ^ | Sept 12, 2022 | By SWANSEA UNIVERSITY & University Of Oxford

Posted on 09/12/2022 1:01:57 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Cool.


21 posted on 09/12/2022 3:15:35 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Myrddin; Red Badger

How do spell-check the Welsh on-line spell check dictionary?


22 posted on 09/12/2022 3:17:12 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Welsh is easy to spell check.

When it looks wrong, it’s correct.


23 posted on 09/12/2022 3:31:21 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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the rest of the Wales keyword, sorted:

24 posted on 09/12/2022 4:22:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Yeah, pretty much. Bran the Blessed (Welsh folkloric figure) was so large, no house could hold him nor ship bear him. He and his brothers had to cross to Ireland over a family matter, and he steadied himself on one of the watercraft and waded up to his neck to get there. Again, folklore. Thanks Red Badger.

25 posted on 09/12/2022 4:23:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: seowulf

Ouch.


26 posted on 09/12/2022 4:38:36 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger

You do realize that “now” I’m going to have to spend most of tomorrow morning clucking on every one of those links. Don’t you?


27 posted on 09/12/2022 4:40:52 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Saw the name Bran Blessed, and couldn't help but remember British actor Brian Blessed. When I did a search for him, this recent article came up:

Brian Blessed claims 'Flash Gordon' was the Queen's favourite film

28 posted on 09/12/2022 5:01:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Robert A Cook PE
I have Y Geiriadur Mawr == the big dictionary. In addition, some learner's dictionaries, phrase books, idioms. Google translate does a reasonable job of translation. When learning the language, you need to learn southern, mid-valley and northern dialects because people are much more mobile today. Ordinarily, a dialect arises from geographic isolation. TV, radio, planes, trains and autos have broken the lock of isolation on Welsh dialects. Ireland has almost 200 dialects of Irish Gaelic.

The song Tan y Llyn in a video has the Welsh and English together. The music is performed in Welsh. Tan yn Llyn

Spell check can be challenging because Welsh has a variety of mutations: contact, nasal, aspirant that make words flow together better. Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic have similar rules with broad/slender consonants/vowels and lenition to make spoken language flow better.

29 posted on 09/12/2022 6:56:35 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Bratch

That was when the Rhine and the Thames were the same river.


30 posted on 09/12/2022 7:36:55 PM PDT by blam
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To: Red Badger

The Welsh should have shutdown their coal and natural gas and nuclear power plants so this would not have happened...


31 posted on 09/13/2022 12:36:43 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Myrddin

Slightly different from modern Welsh, but readable.

Are you sure????........................ 🤔

32 posted on 09/13/2022 5:12:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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33 posted on 09/13/2022 5:20:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I wouldn’t blame ya. Of course, if the titles were in Welsh, the list could have been much longer...


34 posted on 09/13/2022 5:23:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mass55th

:^)


35 posted on 09/13/2022 5:24:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; SunkenCiv

That’s a Wale of a list!......................


36 posted on 09/13/2022 5:42:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
That's a famous sign at the railway station on Ynys Mon. Anglesey to English speakers.
37 posted on 09/13/2022 7:55:43 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: SunkenCiv
Welsh place names are descriptive. Pen (end). Pont (bridge). Pen-y-Bont (end of the bridge). English name: Bridgend. Cities at the mouth of a river begin with Aber. Aberystwyth, Aberaeron, Abertawe(Swansea). Military castles (forts) start with Caer. Caerdydd (Cardiff, day fort). Caerfyrddin (Myrddin's fort...Merlin the magician). Church locations start with Llan. Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn (Mihangel (michael's church), Llanafon (river church). Cwm is a valley. Cwmystwyth is a town in the Ystwyth river valley. Pontrhydygroes--> Pont (bridge), groes (croes...cross), rhyd (a river ford). This location is a crossroads that fords the river.

Check how the map link shows the descriptive nature of Pontrhydygroes.

My great grandfather lived in a house on the road at this link and worked in the lead mines on the lower right. His house was still standing when I visited in 1997. Ystbyty Ystwyth

38 posted on 09/13/2022 8:30:23 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Thanks!


39 posted on 09/13/2022 8:40:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mware
Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years...

That Brigadoon?

40 posted on 09/13/2022 8:49:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Edward Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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