wrote:
>On 06/02/2016 13:12, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/02/2016 10:08, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 04/02/2016 14:17, Joseph Testagrose wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're wondering what it says on the side of the aircraft, it's in
>>>>> Welsh. The first word is "school" and the other two are place names, and
>>>>> "y" is "and".
>>>>
>>>> Same in Spanish. I'm sure there is a reason...
>>>>
>>>> The UN should airdrop a load of vowels into Wales. And remind them
>>>> that y is only ~sometimes~ a vowel... =)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Don't forget that Welsh language and its cousins pre-date "English"!
>>>
>>> I like Wales, it's somewhere were we holiday a lot, being less than an
>>> hour's drive away, although my Spanish is far better than my Welsh.
>>
>> I have an utterly unsubstantiated suspicion that my family tree might
>> have a root or two there. No elders left to pick brains of...
>>
>> I know I visited with my family when I was quite young; vague memories
>> of places with names long enough to make even a German gasp for
>> breath.
>>
>
>:-)
>
>It's a country with views to die for!
>
>;-)
Affirmative!
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