Wales considering renaming as Cymru

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Thoughts? Think they'd still be Wales to me. https://www.theguardian.com/football...-world-cup-faw

[dml1954]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

Thoughts? Think they'd still be Wales to me. https://www.theguardian.com/football...-world-cup-faw

So change the name of the national team, in a country where only about 30% of the population speak the language. Very clever. Almost as idiotic as changing all the road signs.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

My thoughts are no thank you , stick with Wales

[Nobody's Rep]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

So change the name of the national team, in a country where only about 30% of the population speak the language. Very clever. Almost as idiotic as changing all the road signs.

Not comparable at all - why is it idiotic to be able to conduct your life in the language of your birthplace that you were raised with and understand and use daily?

[JamesWales]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

There have been a few discussions on here where there is a general agreement that the Welsh support and authorities seem to be amplifying slightly more nationalistic tones than they used to. Some support that, others dont. Personally, I think that's a dangerous road to go down and it seems Noel Moody may be behind some of it? It's notable that the Rep of Ireland did used to be known as Ireland.

I don't support this idea. Wales is what the majority of people in Wales refer to their country as. It's also how the rest of the world know us (if they know us at all)

I would feel less connection as a result to be honest. It's not comparable to our rebrand, but it is a rebrand nonetheless and seems a strange move to rock a steady boat.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I think it might appeal to the cracac in pontcanna

And those yes Cymru lot

But when Bryn Terfel sings the national anthem and says the blood of caradog flows through him then when asked by the BBC who are his sporting heroes he says fecking man United I say what a load of bollocks all this fake nationalism is

[Trigger]

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I don't get the reference to Turkey. Are they saying the Turks, officially and unofficially used to call themselves Turkey?

There's very different reasons why a Welsh person would happily call the team "Wales". For me it's being as I don't speak Welsh and the language is as foreign to me as Turkish. Rightly or wrongly.

Why confuse the international population anymore? Most barely know Wales as it is.

[chris lee]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

Why change something that is not Broken.

On English speaking broadcasters Sky/BT/BBC we can be referred to as Wales
and on S4C or any other Welsh publications they can call us Cymru.

Seems to work fine.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I think it might appeal to the cracac in pontcanna

And those yes Cymru lot

But when Bryn Terfel sings the national anthem and says the blood of caradog flows through him then when asked by the BBC who are his sporting heroes he says fecking man United I say what a load of bollocks all this fake nationalism is

As someone said elsewhere, City 1st, Wales 2nd. If they do this I'll support England instead.

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

Doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Would help promote the Welsh (Cymru) language and is the Welsh word for Wales so not a rebrand really.

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

As someone said elsewhere, City 1st, Wales 2nd. If they do this I'll support England instead.

Got to be fishing here.

[Hilts]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

As someone said elsewhere, City 1st, Wales 2nd. If they do this I'll support England instead.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Canton Kev]

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I don't think I'm bothered either way, I'd probably just end up using both without thinking about it. I've heard people use Cymru in various settings.
There is precedent for it too. Czechia, The Netherlands, Turkiye, Myanmar and Eswatini all in recent years have changed their names and for Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, El Salvador and probably more we don't use English translations.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: Wales considering renaming as Cymru

Got to be fishing here.

Not really. Turn on the radio and there's endless public service announcements in Welsh. Welsh is now above English on all new road signage etc. Texts from the NHS to my phone are in Welsh, followed by English. Parking machines are in Welsh by default, etc. English comes 2nd in everything. Wales is run by Welsh bigots. If that spreads to their football team they can stuff it.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I have never ever heard anyone call Wales Cymru in a football sense

Maybe in print but even then it's rare

It's Wales ff sake

Are you going to the Wales game , isn't it fantastic to see Wales in euro 2016 , bloody hell Wales gave Belgium a stuffing , I wonder if Bale is going to help Wales get to the world Cup?