( Could someone please post the pronunciations of the letters of the ) Welsh alphabet (actually, the names of the letters) in a manner ( which an _American_ speaker of English can come close to properly ) pronouncing them? Probably not, since pronouncing the names of most of the consonants needs you to pronounce those consonants themselves. I doubt that there is as much uniformity of naming as in English, either, since I remember being laughed at many, many, many years ago for starting out with ah, by, cy, ech, dy, edd... and I wouldn't want to be dogmatic about whether these are all letters of `the alphabet' although they do appear in our words a, bi, ec, ech, di, edd, e+, ef, eff, eg, eng, haits, i, je, el, ell, em, en, o, pi, phy, er, rhy, es, ti, eth, u, w+, y all pronounced the way a Welshman would pronounce them, of course. Oh, I don't know. What more do you have to be told if you're an American? aah, bee, eck, ex (that's a Greek chi, not an x), dee, eth, eh, ev- (as in ever), eff, egg, eng*, height-sh, ee, djay, ell, ehthl*, em, en, oh, pea, fuh, air (with a rolled -r), rhuh, ess, tea, eth, ee, oo (the second part of the dipthong that gets written written eeww sometimes), uh. For eng you probably cannot do the consonant, which is different from n and g. Even pronouncing English, Welsh speakers distinguish between ng and ng-g in a way that English speakers do not and often cannot. You probably cannot do the right vowel for u, either, but this varies quite a bit around Wales and southerners find it difficult to distinguish the Northern `u' from the Northern `i' (or is it the other way around, I wonder), so to distinguish i and u, we often call them i-dot (ee-DOT, that is `dot ee') and u-bedol (ee-BED-all, that is `horseshoe ee'). Either you know what -ll- is, or you have no hope of getting it right. You have to know how to do -rh- too before you can do rhy (rhuh: a rolled r- followed by a dismissive sort of huh, except that the h- is part of the consonant and the -h is an English conventional spelling for controlling the preceding vowel and not a consonant at all). The difference between dd (edd, in English eth) and th (eth, in English eth) is the difference between the th- in `than and that' (an edd, edh?) and the one `through' (an eth). Perhaps. I wouldn't be surprised by buh for bee, kuh for eck, and so on. Perhaps puh for pea, tuh for tea, erh for rhuh. And I expect other people to complain both about how complicated I made it, and at the silly names I have for letters. g Ac wrth gwrs, mae angen hefyd enw ar lythyron fel `k' er mwyn gwybod mai fel `ce ec un chwech' mai darllen teitl yr ysgrif `KC 16' gan T H Parry-Williams ar (destyn) ei foto-beic. ___ Englyn (arall) heno: `Pluen'. (Wn i ddim pwy yw'r awdur(on), englyn o ymryson.) Wedi ystyried ei hystyron, 'no+l lliw, parthed llwfr a gwron, mae rhyw naws o'r Cymry'n hon: cachwrs, ac Indiaid Cochion.