In response to a number of requests, I’ve added a new page to this site: How to Pronounce Those Impossible Welsh Names.
Quite a few Welsh names came up in The Grail Code, and quite a few more have come up in this little journal (especially when we talked about the Welsh superheroes of long ago). The problem with Welsh spelling is that it looks plainly impossible to eyes accustomed to reading English. We just can’t imagine the alphabet working that way.
Now, there are a number of good sites on the Web that will teach you how to pronounce Welsh exactly the way the Welsh do, or—if you prefer—the way the Welsh did when the Mabinogion was compiled. But this page is different. This page teaches you to pronounce Welsh names as if you knew how, which will fool anyone who doesn’t speak Welsh. That, as far as I know, makes it unique in the wonderfully wacky Web.
November 21st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
[...] If that is the most sense you can make of Welsh, take a look over at The Grail Code: “How to Pronounce those Impossible Welsh Names.” [...]
September 2nd, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Such a wonderful written report! No idea how you wrote this text..it’d take me days. Well worth it though, I’d assume. Have you considered selling advertising space on your blog?