Comments on: Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus/Happy Saint David’s Day

By: Al McCarley

Al McCarley — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:42:03 +0000

Claire:

Wales is only one of the suggested places of St. Patrick (although it was doubtfully Ireland). Here’s WikiAnswers suggestion:

He was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain in the little settlement or village of Bannavem of Taburnia (vico banavem taburniae in his Confessio), which has never been identified with certainty. Sites suggested include Dumbarton, Furness and Somerset, or the coastline of Wales or northern France; another possibility put forward for his birthplace is the settlement of Bannaventa in Northamptonshire, for raiders captured him with “many thousands of people” according to Patrick’s autobiographical Confessio, and sold them as slaves in Ireland. The tiny Welsh village of Banwen has often been suggested as his birth place. It was clearly occupied in Roman times, sitting on the Neath-Brecon Roman road and next to the two Roman forts in Coelbren.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:18:23 +0000

One other Fun Welsh Fact, Saint Patrick, was Welsh, not Irish.

By: enid

enid — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:04:54 +0000

Dwi’n credu bod rhywun wedi bod yn malu cachu gydag ambell air, ond ar y cyfan mae rhain yn eitha da. Yr unig un y bydden i’n newid yw rhif 3 yn y rhestr i Han – Dwi eisiau priodi Klingon – mae hwn yn hawddach na’r un sy da ti.
Pob hwyl da’r Cymraeg
Ern

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:35:44 +0000

Thanks for the Welsh lesson. I pretty much knew none of that beforehand.

By: Sayre

Sayre — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:59:04 +0000

I have several “tea towels” with Welsh vocabulary on them, including the #5 sentence, which I actually used to be able to pronounce.

My grandmother and I were watching a soap in Welsh (with subtitles) together a couple of years ago and she asked me if I thought I could learn Welsh. I thought I could if I were immersed in it. I still think about getting a Rosetta course. Not that I’d be able to use it here in the States much, but it would be a fun thing to learn!

Ta!

By: smart alec Welsh grammar nazi

smart alec Welsh grammar nazi — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:13:40 +0000

Rhys, maybe ‘shitting bricks’ rather than the too-literal ‘shitting planks’ is a better translation. It’s only borderline swearing really, the mild stuff.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:06 +0000

Ummm Happy St David’s day is it Boyo ermmm have fun this day you will.

Can I just say that no one has said how great my name for you and Han is. Hanwynne – it’s genius plus it sounds quite Welsh! Whammy!

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:04:44 +0000

Haha, SAWGN – I love the phrase “cachu planciau”

By: smart alec Welsh grammar nazi

smart alec Welsh grammar nazi — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:59:46 +0000

Kristoff – even if they speak Welsh, they won’t have a clue what you are on about. Cachau isn’t a Welsh word, ‘Cachu’ is, and means Shit. ‘Bant’ is South West Wales dialect meaning away, standard Welsh for the same meaning is ‘i ffwrdd’. In any case it doesn’t mean Fuck Off. The list of welsh swearwords where this phrase is given as a valid one is probably from http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/welsh.htm
which isn’t very accurate. There is a much better, completely correct one here: http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk/cheat/cheat_swearing.htm

By: Kristoff

Kristoff — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:53:52 +0000

Happy St.Davids day Rhys, and all your fellow welsh types!!

I’m now off to tell all my friends to Cachau bant

Thanks for that one!