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Snowdon to be known by it's Welsh name Yr Wyddfa
- Normille 4y agoActual title: Snowdon: Park to use mountain's Welsh name Yr Wyddfa If you'd kept that, you'd not have misused that apostrophe on it's
- m463 4y agoI thought this was about the whistleblower - it's about the name of a welsh mountain. :)
- layman51 4y agoSame here. But also I got confused because I remember it being spelled with an "e" near the end.
- Veen 4y agoI'm all for using the Welsh names, but I don't think it makes sense to remove the English equivalents. Although about 60% of people in Gwynedd speak Welsh, most Welsh people can't and approximately no one who isn't Welsh can.
- hanoz 4y agoUnfortunately the 20% who speak Welsh dominate the institutions of power in Wales, in gross disproportion to thier number, and moves like this are more about power than making any kind of practical sense. See also the recently announced plans for the Welsh football team to be known as Cymru, even when referred to in English. This sort of parochial nonsense goes on at every level and really holds Wales back.
- squidbeak 4y agoIf the Welsh Government isn't going to champion Welsh, who is?
- hanoz 4y agoIt's a question of approach. Ramming it down people's throats is not Championing. Making it compulsory up to the age of 16, to the detriment of other subjects, so that it's almost universally resented in my children's school, for example, is not the way to go about it.
- simplotek 4y ago> Making it compulsory up to the age of 16, to the detriment of other subjects (...) Which subject do you believe should have a higher priority than defending the cultural identity of a nation?
- whoooooo123 4y agoMaths, science.
- Widdershin 4y agoHow is it prioritised over these subjects? Surely a student can take math, science and Welsh and still have time for a few more subjects.
- voakbasda 4y agoOpportunity cost. By having to study it at all, those students lose the opportunity to study something else that might have more value or merit to them personally. In that way, it definitely is a forced priority.
- simplotek 4y ago> Maths, science. But those are already taught as the central subjects, aren't they? They are far from being ignored or neglected. Again, which subjects should be prioritized offer cultural identity?
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- qualudeheart 4y agoI think it’s good. Antiracism.
- nashashmi 4y ago"... the park already included the Welsh names on English-language documents followed by the English names in parentheses. However, the name Snowdonia is set in law, therefore the authority has the legal requirement to also use it in official statutory documents. Some Welsh-language campaigners have stated they would want the names to be scrapped entirely. The authority announced they are to conduct a review of the authority's branding in 2023 taking into account the new approach to Welsh place names."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#:~:text=the%20park%20already,27%5D%5B28%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#:~:text=the%20park%2...
- basementcat 4y agoThe area around Yr Wyddfa/Snowden is breathtakingly beautiful. The hike to the summit is not too difficult (there is a more challenging route for those so inclined) and there is the option of riding a train.
- blowski 4y agoThe hardest bit about climbing it is dealing with the crowds. There is literally a long queue for the peak, and people leave rubbish everywhere. But, yeah, it’s beautiful and I was one of the crowd so I shouldn’t complain.
- unculture 4y agoI'm just loving the fact that this news article from the BBC provides no instruction about how to pronounce either Yr Wyddfa or Eryri. If only there were a way for the BBC to include audio on the page!
- fourthark 4y agoThey give pronunciation in the picture toward the bottom of the article.
- parkersweb 4y agoIt’s badly done - but it is there. Text overlay in the mountain image. Er-with-va - Snowdon Eh-ruh-re - Snowdonia
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- vincebowdren 4y agoIn retaliation, the Yorkshire Dales national park are proposing to rename Pen-y-ghent to something more English. (this is a joke; the point is that there are lots of places in Britain with unexpected, non-local-seeming language roots)
- DFHippie 4y agoWell, no-longer-local-seeming language roots. I don't know about ghent, but pen y is pretty Welsh. The locals who don't recognize it have mostly just forgotten it.
- technothrasher 4y agoOh great, the one single thing in Wales that I could actually pronounce...
- kwoff 4y agoOff-topic but definitely go there if you have a chance. Very beautiful, take the slow train up. On-topic: go Welsh people, lovely people.