2 posts tagged “cymru”

The Royal Mint has unveiled the new British coins... as I said yesterday, the Royal Coat Of Arms. Meaning England, Scotland, and Ireland. NO WALES.

And get this... they were designed by a Welshman! Matthew Dent, from Bangor. Unbelievable.

And they want us to swear allegiance to this Royalty, who doesn't even acknowledge we exist. Erm... no.

There was a geezer called Evan Evans, a self-made businessmen, who aquired some land in the 1860s and opened several mines, and set up a village called Evanstown.

Evan Evans couldn't speak English, and it is said that on one occasion he was called as a witness at a court and had to use an interpreter. The Judge in charge of the case commented his astonishment that a man in his position hadn't learned and used English, to which Evans replied "Tell him not more astonishing than he, a Magistrate in a Welsh town, does not know the language of its people".

Reminds me of that Thomas Cook fiasco recently, when workers in the branch in Bangor where forbidden to use Welsh. Strange, considering they were Welsh speakers, in a Welsh speaking town, in Wales. Ah, but the new manageress was English. So rather than just learn Welsh, she kicked up a storm by stopping everyone else from talking it. I wonder - if they had a store in Paris, would they forbid its employees from speaking French?