nonentity

Originally Posted by kcallahan

Could you please be more articulate?

It's having to speak the Queen's English kc, something which is foreign to me you know. Did you not have the same problem in Wales?

kcallahan

Do the Welsh speak the Queen's English?

(I'm not going to tell them. )

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nonentity

Unless they are speaking Welsh of course!

Where does lanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliog ogogoch fit in?

kcallahan

Did you mean "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave"?

I went to the train station to get a picture of the sign myself.

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nonentity

But can you pronounce it?

kcallahan

I used to be able to, although I usually ran out of breath.

(My neighbor's wife was Welsh and she helped me learn the language to a minor degree)

Can you?

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Morphy

How do you say: "Don't welsh on the bet" in Welsh?

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Gwisga t Cymraeg acha 'r betia.

Will that do?

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Originally Posted by nonentity

That's OK then because I am really a grumpy, frugal Scotsman who only masquerades as a cat via an avatar. But then you knew that really, didn't you?

How could I be so misled!?!?

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kcallahan

Are you trying to understand a Scotsman?

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Zaniax

Isn't english difficult enough ?

kcallahan

How difficult can it be?

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I can school you in Finnish if you'd like?
and a couple of others.