- The verb welsh and the noun welsher are sometimes perceived as insulting to or by the Welsh, the people of Wales.
- Because just before the end of regular playing time, the Welsh smelled, when Orange was already in the locker room with their thoughts, that a draw was still possible.
- For instance, estimates suggest that over half a million people in the UK speak Welsh, making it the second most-spoken language in the country.
- And being a phonetic language, only c is used to convey the k sound, for instance. U is a vowel in Welsh (similar to the German umlaut).
- Irish has close to 2 million speakers, most of whom are in the Republic of Ireland; Welsh has about 1 million speakers, and most reside in Wales.
- Moreover, at that time frame, Welsh poetry was also witnessed. Despite of Anglo-Norman conquest, Welsh was used as an official language.
- intr.v. welshed, welsh·ing, welsh·es also welched or welch·ing or welch·es Informal. 1. To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager: welsh on a bet.
- Since the 1960s there has been a movement to increase the use and recognition of Welsh, initially spear-headed by the Welsh Language Society.
- Cymric language is the self-name of the word “Welsh”, which is familiar to us, which comes from the term Cymru (Wales), read as “Kemri”.
- The vocabulary of Welsh however is not so exotic. Many of the words, particularly for of modern things, have been borrowed from English.