So... what's in this one ...well, loads of Welsh idioms from the mundane to the extremely strange, all illustrated with a "dialogue", and a smashing and really useful list of short idiomatic phrases that are often hard to find in a dictionary ... ar fai, i fod (i), lladd ar , eist , diwrnod i'r brenin, fy ngorau glas, druan â fe and so on.
Here's a few examples of the idioms he does ... my choices are heavily influenced by my increasing age and my obsessive interest in birds, as you will see....
Hoff gan bob aderyn ei lais ei hun .... every bird likes its own voice.
Henach, henach, ffolach, ffolach ... the older you are, the stupider you get.
Gwyn y gwêl y frân ei chyw(ion). .... The crow sees its young as white ( i.e. blameless)
Dwla dwl, dwl hen.... the most foolish fool is an old fool.
Am y tywydd, gorau tewi ... it's best to keep silent about the weather.
'Tinddu' meddai'r frân wrth yr wylan........ "Blackarse" said the crow to the seagull
Nid wrth ei big mae adnabod cyffylog.... it isn't by its beak that one knows a woodcock.
Un wennol ni wna wanwyn ... One swallow doesn't make a spring.
And, as mentioned above, every one of them has a neat bit of dialogue after to put it in context ....
... and now, here's Swnami with Gwreiddiau ...
This is the point at which the previous Welsh blog of mine, and all my other blogs as well, got wiped out by persons unknown. Who knows what might happen this time.