I wonder if Welsh was derived or stuck in old or middle English, whose language sounds guttural, like you're sick and you need to clear your sinuses constantly. I've heard Chauncer's Canterbury Tales read in Middle English, I think, and I didn't understand a word of it but it doesn't sound easy to speak at all.
Mel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin G. McCormick Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:13 PM To: Just Chat; Where Anything Goes ... Almost! Subject: Re: Place names etc. It used to be possible to hear the sound from BBC television right here in the central United States during periods of peak Solar activity. If you had a short wave radio that could tune around 42 megahertz and receive AM sound, you could hear British and French television sound on many Winter days when it was daylight in both the UK and North America. The BBC had television transmitters all over England, Scotland and Wales and during mid afternoons in the UK some of these transmitters broadcast local programming. I ran across one, one day, that had a play in Welsh so I listened, not comprehending one single word, of course. It has roughly the cadence of English. It may be a little harsh sounding, but it has been over 30 years since I listened and the only reason I know it was Welsh was that the BBC announcer said something like, "The following broadcast is in Welsh." I could imagine also hearing, "Please do not try to adjust your ears." I have heard there are parts of Wales in which the road signs are in Welsh and some folks actually vandalize English signs. ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
