I hope you enjoyed those "memory sentences" all about how to remember Welsh numbers.
Way back at the dawn of this rather ridiculous blog, I made loads of those " memory sentences" .... and seeing as, presumably, people don't read this from start to finish like you would if it was a book, you might easily miss them .....and you wouldn't want to do that.
Certainly not.
And ..it will give me an opportunity to collect them all together in one place.
Which is a satisfying thing to do.
So here we go ... this bit appeared on here in November 2014 ....
George always rhan part of the way to work.
This clever sentence is a good way to remember that rhan = part.
It's extra good because the words involved are together and there's no distracting words.
They're not all as good as that .... but they do work...well, they work for me,
So here's some more ... but the real point is for you to get the idea and use it yourself for words that just won't stick.
Aren is such a tiny bird, it only has one kidney !
If you squash aberi, it causes the juice to flow.
Dadl start an argument about anything.
Alan's stuck his hedyn the seed bin again.
We all have to gather at the gates of hel.
Give ysbail and we'll share the loot with you. (give "us bail" ... it works !)
I've had enough ofer, she's vain and wasteful.
Her charm gets Swyn to anywhere. ( Sue in)(geddit?)
He didn't come today, ddoe did come yesterday.
That curt manner of hers doesn't swta.
Helen is a dirgel, but she can't keep a secret. ( dear gel = girl)
Every garden in Perth has to have a hedge !
Alan shoved the trolian it started to roll away ! ( trolley and)
The wagon was full of men !
Here's a slightly different way of doing the same thing .... this was back in September 2014 when I was young and sprightly of brain ...
So ..... how to you go about remembering shedloads of totally unfamiliar words?
Well, of course, there are strategies , well-tried and tested strategies that can help.
I'm going to show you how I've remembered successfully various Welsh words, to show you lots of different ways or routes to making a link in your mind ...... here we go ......
ffrae = a quarrel ....... which often leads to a fight or A FRAY ( " a fight or noisy quarrel ")
golaith ..... to avoid/evade ..... why didn't Goliath just avoid meeting David in the first place ?
brain = crows ..... think of a flock of crows pecking out your brains.
colli = lost/to lose .... imagine a poor lost collie.
addo = to promise ....... must be linked to "oath"
llumon = chimney-stack .... lo and behold, lum is Scots for a chimney.
paffio = to box .... and when the gloves hit, they go "paff, paff"
tail = manure ..... cow's tails are always covered in manure.
ffug = fake is just a slightly changed version of fake.
chwant = desire , and sure enough there is the word "want" stuck to it.
cenfig = envy, and there is the sound of "envy" inside it.
cynuta = to gather firewood ... I'm sure King Canute did the same while trying to hold the tide back.
wyth = eight ..... "I'm off to the pub at 8" ... " Who with ?"
epa = ape ...... and it's ape backwards !
rhaff = rope .... raffia is a sort of paper rope .
trwchfil = an insect ..... Jen was horrified to find a truckful of insects on her drive.
datrys .... to solve.... it's a tricky case, and the DA trys to solve it.
Dianc = to escape ... imagine an ankle-cuffed convict escaping by de-ankling himself.
mynnu = to insist ... as far as money goes, I insist on cash on the nail.
plygu = to fold ..... which must be linked to the idea of "ply"
brethyn = cloth ... you can't make a cloth balloon, it wouldn't keep your breath in.
There are more of these, but it looks like I never put them on here ... I'll dig them up and stick them in.
Meanwhile here's "Amseraemai" ... Euros Childs..
But then someone bandit.