so i guess the colloquial american-english translation of "hwyl fawr" would be "big yucks!" leslie jones ljones@law.uoregon.edu > Happened to notice entry under "hwyl" in my Collins Spurrell, having > never bothered to look that up (assuming it meant "joy", "have fun" > and so forth). Here is the dictionary definition: "Hwyl (-au) nf > sail; humour; religious fervour". Hmm! Among the words missing > from Collins Spurrell are "Breton" (neither the word for the > language, nor adjective, nor citizen) and "Cornish". It has > words for both "Briton" and "British", and--just checked > this--for "Irish" and "Scottish". Diddorol iawn. mg > > MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE >