Thanks Ian, I’ll sort this out!

Glad you found the post useful, Sandi! Pob hwyl, Gareth

Diolch am ddarllen, Rhys! Glad you found the post useful. I also wince at a lot of what I hear, especially ending sentences ending with a preposition not in a personal form. I think part of the problem is that people don’t read enough Welsh and have lost the feel for the spirit of the language, so to speak.

Sounds a fascinating project, John! I hope it goes well!

Thank you for your insight, Dr. Popkins. I investigated the identical question in Welsh, Chinese Mandarin, and Romanian. You get three very different solutions to the same usage situation. Languages, and the people whose ideas they express, are so fascinating to me.

What drew me to Welsh? An idea.

I’m a public historian with some real-world observations about the danger inherent in the deliberate distortion of history I see happening here. I’d like people to see what I see, but if I write a book about American history, too many will pass it up, thinking they know it all already. (They don’t. That’s the point.) So I’m writing a novel instead, in a fictional parallel world. For reasons I’d rather decline to explain, the rich history of fictional language in that world, if carried forward in time to my tale, might closely resemble Welsh, so I’d like to infuse it here and there. It’s not the history of Wales (or America for that matter) or about the language of Wales, but even so I think it will endear people who don’t already know Welsh and make them want to hear more, and please people who do already know it. That’s the hope, anyway.

S’mae, John? Diolch am ddarllen. Yes, this post (and all my posts) are still very much being monitored. What attracted you to Welsh? It’s “Pennod Pedwar” (Chapter Four) but y “bedwerydd bennod” (the fourth chapter- classic e.g. of an ordinal number, fem form, soft mutation of fem. noun). As for “Pennod Pedwar” Though I can’t find an explanation in my (quite extensive) collection of Welsh grammar books), I think the explanation must be that Pedwar is not behaving adjectivally here. It’s the name of the chapter.