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This thread reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...
"The utterances of those who can not speak, written by those who can not write for those who can not read."
 

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You're Welsh? I didn't know that!
On October 6, 1949, Kingsley Amis wrote to his friend Philip Larkin about the reaction of his father-in-law, whom he passionately detested, to the news that he, Amis, had received an interview for a teaching position in Swansea:

Won't it be marvelous if Kingsley gets the job!!! Professor Dai ap Faeces is there, who wrote the first really scholarly Welch grammar, I'll get it and show you. . . . So handy for the National Scheissbedsodd, too. What's that? You may have to stay there overnight? No need to bother about a hotel---go to some real old countryman's place---I'll show off in the lingo a bit: 'Llgo andw ghet stwft, iu stwpydd olld swd,' he'll say, or perhaps 'Scwm offw, iu blwddy wytt-eddyd chwmp-an-si ffacd maas-tyr-batwr . . .
From The Letters of Kingsley Amis, p. 215.