Helium ( He) 1
Hydrogen ( H) 2 and so on.
Well, you can write "arse" easily enough, using titanium Ti = 22 and Nitrogen N = 7
So, in Welsh, 22 7 = TiN === Arse.
So you could send somebody a Titanium box full of Nitrogen, and little would they realise what you really meant. Ha ! I'm working on it, but I reckon titanium is both heavy and expensive to post.There's always the danger that they might think it was nit instead. Blast.
Here's a list of the single letters you can get with this method ...
B = 5 C =6 F = 9 H = 1 I = 53 N=7 O= 8 P=15 S = 16 U = 92 W = 74 Y = 39
and you can also get these handy combinations ...
He = 2 Li = 3 Be = 4 Ne = 10 Na =11 Al = 13 Si = 14 Cl = 17 Ar = 18 Ca = 20 Ti = 22 Cr =24 Fe =26 Co = 27 Ni = 28 Cu =29 Ga = 31 Ge =32 As = 33 Se =34 Br = 35 ....and lots more in the table at the end of this post ... I'm a lazy old Hector at times ....
BUT ... there's no stand-alone A, D, E, G, J, L, M, R, T
Let's play about a bit with what we've got ... what are these words ... you'll need to look at that table down there sometimes ...
35 39 7 13 57 7 105 9 6 53 28 8 32 77 53 79
Well, that was fun! Mind you, it hardly seems necessary to encrypt a language like Welsh... if you see what I mean.
So ... here's the big question ... what's the longest Welsh word you can make using this elemental hymn code ? And what's the word with the highest number total ? These are important questions, probably any half-decent answer you come up with will be a world record for several hours. Just think about that ! Let me know if you come up with any whizzo answers... maybe as a comment or to [email protected]
But now, here's the mighty TJF and Y Garreg Ateb ....