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Its from a music sheet site, but this is what they have said
Dic Siôn Dafydd – (literal translation: “Richard son of John son of David” - is a term of abuse applied to a Welshman who denies his native language and speaks only English. In other words, a traitor.
The term originates from a one Dic Siôn Dafydd who left Wales to became a draper in London. His pomposity led him to claim that he had forgotten how to speak Welsh, and on a visit to his mother in Wales who spoke only Welsh he insisted on speaking English.
Does anyone remember that druid bloke Dr Robyn Lewis who was prominent in the Welsh language Society alongside Ffred Ffrancis ?
He used to write into the western mail and described anyone living in Wales who didn't speak welsh as a monoglot and a colonialist
Daft old sod , probably dead now
He hated the English so much he studied at university college London, England
Mind you we do have the people who say they walk into pubs and shops in Welsh speaking areas and THEY .....start speaking in Welsh
I have never experienced that , I think it's a myth and quite frankly if you go into a pub in a Welsh speaking area and the locals are speaking Welsh then it seems perfectly normal I would have thought .
Used to go on holiday when I was younger to Newquay West Wales with my mate and his family who were from Birmingham but moved down here when my mate was a kid
His old man loved Wales, soon became a regular at Cardiff City
It's only a line on a map really
We're in the middle of something here Sludge, bit rude to interrupt tbh
Enjoy your monologues Sludge but for some reason this came to mind!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1035805923833524224
my understanding is the faint hearted and servile are people who welcome English "oppression"
the blackness around us would be English "oppression" or the fact that Wales barely exists as a nation these days
the breaking of the dawn would be being ready for when Wales rises again as a strong independent nation
DIC Sion dafydd was a character in a poem who was Welsh but ashamed of his welshness, and tried to hide it, even to the point of only speaking in English to his own mother who only spoke Welsh. sort of a Welsh version of an Uncle Tom kind of character.
My ex (in the 70's) was from Bagshot, Surrey, as were most of her family - but her mum was from Pembrokeshire and spoke Welsh.
On a visit to the mum's family, they were in a pub down west, and were speaking English, as only the mum could speak Welsh.
Bar staff and locals were speaking Welsh and were not too complimentary about the little group of "Englanders".
So when they were leving, although they knew perfectly well where they were going, mum went up to the bar and loudly asked for directions - in Welsh! Queue chins dropping to the floor.
Is this a safe place for me to say that it's possible to be pro-independent but hate tub-thumping nationalism?