⚽️ Spoke to a well-travelled pal of mine this morning who recommends that any #Welsh #football fans who intend on travelling to the USA for #WorldCup 2026 to apply for an ESTA before travelling:

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/

This process won’t be as straightforward for any campaigners who’ve been arrested, or for trans people.

Curiosity: two six-letter #words, such that

• each contains all five of A, E, I, O, U.
• one is #Welsh.
• one is #French.
• they are #anagrams of each other.
• they end with the same three letters.
• their meanings are unrelated.

The Welsh word has all five letters together.
The French word is one you probably know if you've ever been taught any French.

Only partially successfully understanding what this meat merchant of dubious legality from "Gavin and Stacey" is saying in Welsh... allai unrhyw un helpu fi, plîs?

"[Something] neu rhywbeth. Asennau, asennau porc, [it sounds like he says "corgiminech" but I suspect it's "corgimychiaid"] mawr, stecen, stecen ar yr asgwrn, syrlwyn a'r [?llygad yr asen?], dim ffiled, [?wrthai ddim gallu cael ffiled? something like that], brest cyw iâr, kebabau - cyw iâr i gyd - a sosej."

And later - "yn union": "exactly".

"[Something] or something. Ribs, pork ribs, large prawns, steak, steak on the bone, sirloin [?and ribeye?], no fillet (he told me he couldn't get fillet), chicken breast, kebabs - all chicken - and sausage."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjOJ9yrmSBs

#Cymraeg #Welsh

Stolen Steaks - Gavin and Stacey - BBC

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“Welsh Language Fanfiction in Light of Welsh Cultural and National Identity and Language Revitalisation”, Nikola Zduńczyk, Marta Rogulska, Daniel Sokulski
https://doi.org/10.14746/scp.2022.7.2 [EN] [24 p.]
Sur les lecteurs et écrivains de fanfiction en gallois
#welsh #wales #cymru #cymraeg #nationalism
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Welsh Language Fanfiction in Light of Welsh Cultural and...

While the field of fan studies is constantly growing, it has been scarcely researched in relation to minority languages and language...

Paradigm
“Welsh Language Fanfiction in Light of Welsh Cultural and National Identity and Language Revitalisation”, Nikola Zduńczyk, Marta Rogulska, Daniel Sokulski
https://doi.org/10.14746/scp.2022.7.2 [EN] [24 p.]
On Welsh-language fanfiction readers and writers
#welsh #wales #cymru #cymraeg #nationalism
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Welsh Language Fanfiction in Light of Welsh Cultural and...

While the field of fan studies is constantly growing, it has been scarcely researched in relation to minority languages and language...

Paradigm
Sioned Fôn Jones

Episódio de podcast · Beti a'i Phobol · 30/11/2025 · 42 min

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21 Dec 1501: Newly married Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Prince of #Wales set off for the #Welsh marches #otd 30 years later she would testify that they had not consummated on this journey

According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻

This new book in our collection by @delythbadder & @thefolklorepodcast presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!

#WelshCulture #BritishCulture #ghosts

20 Dec 1629: William Bedell ordains the #Welsh Thomas Price as deacon in the Church of #Ireland #otd In 1667 Price would become archbishop of Cashel
doing my semi yearly re-read of Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising Sequence
but this time, I'm listening to the audio book, this is also the first time since I started learning #welsh.
gotta say, it's nice to hear all the welsh words pronounced properly
before now i was completely butchering them 😅