Calling all translators (Welsh)

[Julian Field]

At 20:39 04/03/2004, you wrote:
>Chris W. Parker <>
>     on Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:37 PM said:
>
> > Martin Sapsed <mailto:m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK>
> >     on Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:40 AM said:
> >
> >>  >         Message contained archive which could not be read  >
> >>  >         Message contained password-protected archive
> >>
> >> Neges yn cynnwys archif na ellid ei darllen
> >>
> >> Neges yn cynnwys archif wedi'i diogelu â chyfrinair
> >
> > excuse my ignorance.. but welsh? that's from wales right? but i
> > thought they spoke english there?
>
>whoops.. i meant to not send that email.. but now that i have. let me 
>continue it...
>
>and how does wales and england and all those countries fit into the united 
>kingdom? is blair the head of the united kingdom or just england?

Tony Blair is the Prime Minister (political head of the government). The 
Queen is the monarch. The United Kingdom is made up of England, Wales, 
Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Welsh, having come close to dying out in the past, is experiencing a strong 
revival and is now taught in most schools in Wales. As an example, all road 
signs in Wales are either in both English and Welsh, or just Welsh.

The Scottish and the Irish traditionally spoke Gaelic (2 different 
versions) though this has now largely died out except on the more remote 
islands. I walked into a pub on the Outer Hebrides off the NW coast of 
Scotland a few years ago and everyone in the pub turned round to see me 
walk in and switched to Gaelic half way through their sentences. Great 
welcome that was :-(

Other languages used to be spoken as well, such as Cornish in Cornwall, a 
county in the SW of England, though that has pretty much died out now.
-- 
Julian Field
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