She was called Dawn ..and she was very pleased to find out that she was "Gwawr" ..... very Welsh-sounding, she said. And it is.
Thinking about it, it's got a "g" and a "w" and another "w".
And G and W are very Welsh, are they not ?
It's got a "Welsh Quotient" of 60% ... not bad.
There's lots of " Extremely Welsh" words ... and quite a few that don't sound Welsh at all. I was never very impressed with "saib" for example. Pah!
[.devlovni saib fo tib a s'ereht ebyam tuB ]
But what, I wonder, is the "Welshest Word Of All" ?
I don't think you can just go on percentages... but it's a start.
The "g" section must be the place to start.
There's a whole raft of crackers there .... gogoneddus
gloywder
golchwr
gwaethwaeth !!
gwatwarwr !!!!
gwargaledwch !!!!!!
.... then there's ysgrifenyddiaeth !!!!
ystyriaeth
ymgynghoriad !!!!
ymddangosiadol !!!!
dwyiethrwydd
diffuantrwydd
diargyhoedd
diboblogaeth
dibynadwyedd !!!!
Well, there's loads more ...what we need is an authoritative committee which could sort it all out....
It would have to be awdurdodol
and dibynadwy
and digyfaddawd
and anwelladwy
.. committed to geirwiredd
... able to make penderfyniadau
... and full of deallgarwch
deallusrwydd
hysbysrwydd
.. and, of course, all llwyrymwrthodwyr !
Surely that's not too much to ask.
So ... think on, as we say up in't North.
And here's Steve Eaves and " Nos Da, Mam" ...