Reply With QuoteIt's utter bollocks
Nobody calls it that
BBC Wales pontcanna taffia
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I ask because it was mentioned on a Wales Today report. Never ever heard it pronounced like that b4.
It's utter bollocks
Nobody calls it that
BBC Wales pontcanna taffia
They do if they speak Welsh.Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Not the Welsh speakers I know
It's bbc Wales being arses
My son speaks Welsh he pronounces it slightly differently in Welsh That said why bring Welsh words into English speaking programmes. I agree with Sludge here. It’s the old Cymru/Wales debate again.
Making Porthcawl sound as of its fancy bloody broth is ridiculous. This is not an anti Welsh rant, but it has been pronounced 'call' for ever not 'cowl'.
Name apparently derived from 'Harbour of the sea kale'. Feck all to do with soup.
Sorry mate, but all those who foam at the mouth whenever a Welsh word ends up being spoken in an English language broadcast are the arses here.
I've heard Welsh speakers, even those who live near there as I'm from that area originally, call it cawl when speaking in Welsh.
Same with Powys or Powis?
Whenever I hear places pronounced in the Welsh language I feel slightly guilty that I'm lazy and use the Anglicised version.
Why is Merthyr Tydfil referred to as Merthyr Tudful on some road signs? Isn’t Tydfil Welsh?
Lazy Sign Writer.
Never heard locals calling in 'cawl' and it does grate a bit when I hear it on Radio Wales. As I posted earlier the 'cawl' bit has nothing to do with soup so I think it is perfectly reasonable to argue, and not in an anti Welsh language way that it should continue to be pronounced 'call' .
It was v definitely “cowl” as in Batman’s cape. It was used by one of the many Tomos’s on BBC Wales. (Prerequisites for job?)
There's a female presenter who pronounced it 'cawl' just this week.
I remember now. Even more cringeworthy as it was on main BBC News.
The cringeworthy one is the person who's started a thread angered by someone pronouncing a word.
Are they the Pontcanna taffia you whinge about?
You're stuck so far in the past I'm surprised you manage to log in.
I'm not very good at spotting multi accounts but the thread title has a strong Cedric vibe (?)
Tend to agree. Years of pronouncing Welsh words in an English way doesn’t mean they should stay that way. Time to learn the correct pronunciation.
It certainly does.
Ah, the Royal Signals fantasist. Cedric Harper by way of Stockyard Channing, Helen Menken and lord knows who else in between or concurrently.
Welsh spelling is Tudful. She was a princess.
Almost certainly Cedric - or Tony to those who know him.
Is Tydfil the English spelling then? I’ve no clue.
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