"Persil Automatic"
For the benefit of my younger readers, Persil was/is? a washing powder.
This little two-word phrase contains all the Irish vowel sounds ... I tried it out on my (Northern) Irish significant other, and it works brilliantly. I'm pretty good at the Irish accent anyway, having spent quite a chunk of my life over there. Anyway, he got the part.
But ..but .. this got me thinking ... people notoriously have trouble with saying Welsh words, the "ch" and the "ll" and the accent itself .... is there a magic " Persil Automatic"-type phrase for them? Come to that, is there a magic phrase for remembering those soft mutations?
I don't know .... but maybe one of you out there does. And now here's GZM with the excellent "Siwt Nofio" .....