CameronL Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) Sorry..This is Rmweb establishing its green credentials by recycling jokes. Edited July 1, 2020 by CameronL Removing an ungrammatical apostrophe. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 46 minutes ago, tomparryharry said: There are similar situations in Wales. Blaenavon is an English-given name, being in that part which is the English part of Monmouthshire. Nowadays, being part or Torfaen, it now has the name of Blaenafon; F being pronounced as V in Welsh. Blaenavon used to have Welsh chapels and English chapels, some Welsh chapels spoke English and some English chapels spoke Welsh. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted July 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2020 5 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: historically many parts of Scotland never had a indigenous Gaelic speaking population and a lot of the place names were never derived from a Gaelic etymology Jim's right. A large number of places have names that, linguistically, come from other language groups. Take the south-east as an example - in sub-Roman times these lands were occupied by people who's language was from a different Celtic grouping than Gaelic. I've read that this 'old British' is more akin to an ancient form of Welsh. Traces of it can still be seen in some remaining names. I am not anti-Gaelic but think we should keep languages in perspective, and not succumb to political motives. Anyway, rant over. Can we go back to repeats of jokes, cartoons, etc, etc? 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 20 minutes ago, Alex TM said: Jim's right. A large number of places have names that, linguistically, come from other language groups. Take the south-east as an example - in sub-Roman times these lands were occupied by people who's language was from a different Celtic grouping than Gaelic. I've read that this 'old British' is more akin to an ancient form of Welsh. Traces of it can still be seen in some remaining names. I am not anti-Gaelic but think we should keep languages in perspective, and not succumb to political motives. Anyway, rant over. Can we go back to repeats of jokes, cartoons, etc, etc? What did the sub-Romans ever do for us? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gibbo675 Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 6 hours ago, tomparryharry said: There are similar situations in Wales. Blaenavon is an English-given name, being in that part which is the English part of Monmouthshire. Nowadays, being part or Torfaen, it now has the name of Blaenafon; F being pronounced as V in Welsh. Welsh shepherd joke..... How do you count sheep? 'Tis easy! Count all of the legs, and divide by 4... Hi tomparryharry, The counting of sheep is odd to say the least, there is a section for the Welsh version of this specific type of numerology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: What did the sub-Romans ever do for us? That would be Neptune, or am I getting mixed up with that Greek chap in the Poseidian Adventure. Gibbo. Edited July 1, 2020 by Gibbo675 Spelling 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 My friend the shepherd asked me to help round up his 37 sheep. That was easy, it's 40. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jcredfer Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 hour ago, peanuts said: How did the farmer catch his wife? He tractor down. His neighbour, wasn't so subtle, he just ploughed into his... Julian { I guess, I have to wait for the knock on the door from the PC Brigade..... if anyone asks, I was last seen on board the last ship to spend the Antarctic winter researching sunburn. Any movement seen in my house can be attributed to the anti-burglar system.} 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 How long has your Auntie been a burglar then? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted July 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2020 6 minutes ago, peanuts said: This was either in this thread s couple of weeks ago, or the 'Things that make you " thread. The trouble is, they seem to overlap a lot and things end up in both. Then we start muttering about repeats.... 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted July 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2020 4 hours ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi tomparryharry, The counting of sheep is odd to say the least, there is a section for the Welsh version of this specific type of numerology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera Gibbo. Three mates of ours singing the song written by Jake Thakray. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Osgood Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 9 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: This was either in this thread s couple of weeks ago, or the 'Things that make you " thread. The trouble is, they seem to overlap a lot and things end up in both. Then we start muttering about repeats.... Yeah, you can say that again. What? 1 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted July 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2020 20 hours ago, tomparryharry said: There are similar situations in Wales. Blaenavon is an English-given name, being in that part which is the English part of Monmouthshire. Nowadays, being part or Torfaen, it now has the name of Blaenafon; F being pronounced as V in Welsh. However, the people of Varteg just down the valley opted not to change the v for an f. 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted July 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2020 It's not the sort of place to suffer from 'Fflatulence'. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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