You don't believe me ? Here we go .....
The other day I bought very cheaply an ancient Welsh-English dictionary. I don't know the exact date , but early 1900's is an educated guess. Leafing through the ultra-thin, ultra-dinky pages I was amazed to find loads and loads of entries for farcical "English" words. Why would anybody. even way back in 1903, want to look up the Welsh word for such brilliant English (?) words as Buffle-horncup, Browsick, Frozy, Fox-case, Hakot, Habnab, Lipwisdom, Mustrol, Uberocity, Tyromancy, Co-hobate, Wranglands,Bottomry, Bowge, Boutefeu, Cassweed, Counterbound, Deflourer, Bubbing-school, Emeroids, Erotion, Narrable, Knuff, Jobbernowl, Jack-a-lanthorn, Inthronization, Zythepsary, Yarringles, ...............
I swear, on every page of this incredible dictionary there are those words and many many more..... all carefully translated into Welsh in case any Frozy Deflourer, intent on Inthroning some Counterbound Buffle-horncup might need his or her Narrable Yarringles treated with Bowge or Bottomry by the local Zythepsary. who Co-hobates at a nearby Bubbing-school.
Who knows ?
Anyhow, lucky me is going to investigate further ... for a start, I have a similarly ancient Welsh-English dictionary, and I'm going to look those all up in reverse to see what I get ( a bad case of Habnab and/or Knuff i expect).
OK then .... music time today is Cerys Matthews live on Bandit doing a song about a spider and a fly ...