>exactly what the toast means that my uncle uses. He's from South Wales >originally, Ebbw Vale to be precise. He doesn't know, because he was in the >generation that had the language literally beaten out of them at school. >Most of my relatives back there speak little or no Welsh. > >It sounds to an Aussie like "Yucky Da", or "Yucky Da Bo Beed". I guess it >means "good" something, but what? Good luck? Good Health? And how do you >spell it correctly? > >Cheers, >Cath > > Cath, Mae'n eitha tebyg mai'r hyn mae'ch ewythr yn ei ddweud yw "Iechyd Da" - Saesneg Good Health (Iechyd = health, da = good) a "Iechyd Da Bob Un" - Saes. Good Health, Everyone. Mae'r ddau yn cyfateb i Cheers yn Saesneg. Gobeithio nad wyf wedi'ch drysu'n fwy byth. Cath, the toast your uncle uses is almost certainly "Iechyd da" - "Good Health" or "Iechyd Da Bob Un", pronounced, if I can approximate... "yechee dah", with the 'ch' pronounced as the Scottish 'loch', and "Yechee dah bob een" - with the 'ch' pronounced as above and the 'o' of bob lenghtened to resemble the sound of 'awe'. I hope that hasn't confused you even more! Pob hwyl gyda'r dysgu - good luck with learning Welsh Huw