> > (My apologies if this posting is inappropriate or frequently asked.) > > Can anyone send me, or give me a reference to, a quick guide to Welsh > pronunciation? I am visiting Wales for a week next month and would > like to avoid sounding too stupid when referring to place names. The > only thing I can remember about the pronunciation is that "LL" in > Welsh sounds something like "CH" in English. > It was just last year that my mother-in-law, my wife and I were talking about that. As near as I understand it (I trust I'll be corrected if I'm wrong), you put your tongue against the top of your mouth (mostly flat, but not hard), and blow. mark -- /*___________________________________________________________________________* * 1. How *DARE* you attribute these opinions to anyone else! * * 2. Would *you* claim opinions like these if they *weren't your own? * * * * markbr@radian * *___________________________________________________________________________*/ Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow." -- Mike Kellen