Happy St. David's Day!

[Siwsan]

Or, more properly, Dydd Gwyl Dewi!
We of Welsh blood do not have the same PR machine as our cousins, the Irish, so let me proclaim that today celebrates St. David - Patron Saint of Wales.

"To be born Welsh is to be born privileged. Not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but with music in your heart, and poetry in your soul." - Brian Harris

[rug]

1. A question. Why are the Welsh so averse to vowels?

[Siwsan]

7. Have you seen some of the town names, in Wales?

If they had to accommodate too many vowels, the national borders would have to be increased, to accommodate the signs.
Example:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. That's a real town name. It translates to:
'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave'.
They changed the name, to make the town a tourist attraction, but even the original name,Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, was a tongue twister.

[rug]

10. Wow, what a name. I'll have to google the origin of the language.

[sarge43]

2. May y ddraig goch and the blessed saint forever watch over the Land of Song.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Three cheers to the Cymru Crowd, of which I am one!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It's good of you to put in the Queen Mother, but she was Scottish, not Welsh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowes-Lyon

I suppose she did own corgis ...

[Captain Hilts]

8. I thought her lineage was still in dispute. Man, I'd always been told she was part Welsh.

Go figure!

[LaydeeBug]

4. I thought it was Dewi Sant? I could be wrong, if I am, you can kiss me

I'm Irish. ;)

[elleng]

5. Dylan Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B2c4b23r3k&feature=related

[sarge43]

9. And what's Saint David's Day without daffodils and song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCOprRDUm8&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_FIuAJlZUo&feature=related