| Wales on 13:34 - Oct 31 with 3400 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
100% of Welsh people know the name. Some of our recent immigrant population will pick it up easy enough. Everyone is doing it these days. Beijing, Turkiye etc.
Wales actually means 'foreigner' in Anglo Saxon. No one should feel a foreigner in our little land even foreigners.
Welsh football fans need to stop existing through English spectrum in general. Flag waving people labelling other people idiots are agitators in my view.
FAW is democratic and will enact the democratic will of the members. Hardly a "few idiots". Old boy prejudices are slowly been broken down. |  |
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| Wales on 13:38 - Oct 31 with 3425 views | Fireboy2 |
Whether welsh people speak it or not its the proper name of our country
I don't see a problem, the pro anglos are going to have a fit though 🤣 |  | | |
| Wales on 13:46 - Oct 31 with 3410 views | KeithHaynes |
| Wales on 13:38 - Oct 31 by Fireboy2 |
Whether welsh people speak it or not its the proper name of our country
I don't see a problem, the pro anglos are going to have a fit though 🤣 |
I think around 35% over the age of three speak Welsh . |  |
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| Wales on 13:54 - Oct 31 with 3393 views | builthjack |
| Wales on 13:46 - Oct 31 by KeithHaynes |
I think around 35% over the age of three speak Welsh . |
Growing steadily too.
Cymru has been used by the FAW and fans for a few years. |  |
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| Wales on 14:08 - Oct 31 with 3375 views | SkipTheJack |
The name Wales comes from wealas, a Saxon insult meaning foreigner (ironic really, because the Angles and Saxons were the foreigners in Britain, not us!).
There can't be many countries that refer to themselves using an insult.
If people really don't like using Cymru in the English language, then what about the Latinised form Cambria? [Post edited 31 Oct 2022 14:13]
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| Wales on 14:11 - Oct 31 with 3368 views | Lohengrin |
| Wales on 13:34 - Oct 31 by ReslovenSwan1 |
100% of Welsh people know the name. Some of our recent immigrant population will pick it up easy enough. Everyone is doing it these days. Beijing, Turkiye etc.
Wales actually means 'foreigner' in Anglo Saxon. No one should feel a foreigner in our little land even foreigners.
Welsh football fans need to stop existing through English spectrum in general. Flag waving people labelling other people idiots are agitators in my view.
FAW is democratic and will enact the democratic will of the members. Hardly a "few idiots". Old boy prejudices are slowly been broken down. |
What “old boy prejudices?” |  |
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| Wales on 14:18 - Oct 31 with 3316 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wales on 14:08 - Oct 31 by SkipTheJack |
The name Wales comes from wealas, a Saxon insult meaning foreigner (ironic really, because the Angles and Saxons were the foreigners in Britain, not us!).
There can't be many countries that refer to themselves using an insult.
If people really don't like using Cymru in the English language, then what about the Latinised form Cambria? [Post edited 31 Oct 2022 14:13]
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I stopped in a tea shop at a converted railway station in Kent 5 years ago while working on the railways. I had a coffee and a cake. I asked what is that cake. She said "soaked tea fruit cake" and it was called this on the board.
I said it is like the Welsh "bara brith". She looked at the package and it was Howells "Bara brith". They do not white wash French delicatessies like this,
Welsh is ritually and iuncousonessly whitewashed over he border and has been for centuries. Celts lived in the whole of the UK for centuries but little evidence of it now.
BBC hated the word 'Dyfed' and invested in the wording "West Wales" for Dyfed. It has struck although technically Ynys Mon is in "west Wales" | |
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| Wales on 16:28 - Oct 31 with 3286 views | Lohengrin |
| Wales on 13:38 - Oct 31 by Fireboy2 |
Whether welsh people speak it or not its the proper name of our country
I don't see a problem, the pro anglos are going to have a fit though 🤣 |
If the FAW have seen fit to take down the framed picture of Selwyn Jenkins and replaced it with one of Dafydd Iwan as they hop two-footed down some imagined road of Cymmrodorion purity would anybody like to hazard a guess as to how many of the World Cup squad would fall well short of the new benchmark? | |
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| Wales on 16:36 - Oct 31 with 3274 views | Kilkennyjack |
Excellent news.
Our nation is Cymru.
You dont have to be a Professor in Welsh Literature to remember one word.
Vive La Difference. â¤ï¸ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ðŸ¥³ |  |
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| Wales on 16:44 - Oct 31 with 3267 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 16:28 - Oct 31 by Lohengrin |
If the FAW have seen fit to take down the framed picture of Selwyn Jenkins and replaced it with one of Dafydd Iwan as they hop two-footed down some imagined road of Cymmrodorion purity would anybody like to hazard a guess as to how many of the World Cup squad would fall well short of the new benchmark? |
But having a clear Cymru identity has been a critical part to achieving more successful football outcomes.
Its been quite deliberate and its been hugely successful.
The day we stopped thinking of ourselves as England ‘B’ team was the day we took full responsibility for improving ourselves.
Englands flounce out of the 100 years of the yearly Home International games was the biggest favour they have ever done for Cymru.
And England still have not won anything in the next (near) 40 years. 🤣 | |
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| Wales on 16:57 - Oct 31 with 3263 views | Catullus |
| Wales on 13:54 - Oct 31 by builthjack |
Growing steadily too.
Cymru has been used by the FAW and fans for a few years. |
Hang on, the "Football Association of WALES" uses Cymru.
There you go then.
I have pointed out before that the name "Wales" was put on us as an insult. Personally I dont care what word people use, not that much. But shouldn't people be allowed to use the word they are more comfortable with, if that's the anglicised version then so be it. |  |
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| Wales on 17:02 - Oct 31 with 3254 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 16:57 - Oct 31 by Catullus |
Hang on, the "Football Association of WALES" uses Cymru.
There you go then.
I have pointed out before that the name "Wales" was put on us as an insult. Personally I dont care what word people use, not that much. But shouldn't people be allowed to use the word they are more comfortable with, if that's the anglicised version then so be it. |
Yes, the FAW already uses Cymru in all squad announcements, twitter is @Cymru, and even English language articles.
Its a natural progression for us to be seen as ‘CYM’ internationalky rather than ‘WAL’.
Please dont be scared, its just one word.
But its our word. â¤ï¸ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ | |
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| Wales on 17:05 - Oct 31 with 3216 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wales on 16:57 - Oct 31 by Catullus |
Hang on, the "Football Association of WALES" uses Cymru.
There you go then.
I have pointed out before that the name "Wales" was put on us as an insult. Personally I dont care what word people use, not that much. But shouldn't people be allowed to use the word they are more comfortable with, if that's the anglicised version then so be it. |
The English are not comfortable with Welsh words. Hardly surprising it has a different alphabet. It is one way ticket to extinction. Welsh has plenty of fellow travellers who would give it a little push to the cliff face.
The sweet lady in the Kent cafe was not comfortable with 'bara brith' for fear sales would not be good so re named it 'tea soaked cake'. She would have needed to promote it and give free samples like they do in the supermarket for Polish sausages.
She just called it something English instead. We have to promote ourselves. No one else will. [Post edited 31 Oct 2022 17:29]
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| Wales on 17:16 - Oct 31 with 3246 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 17:05 - Oct 31 by ReslovenSwan1 |
The English are not comfortable with Welsh words. Hardly surprising it has a different alphabet. It is one way ticket to extinction. Welsh has plenty of fellow travellers who would give it a little push to the cliff face.
The sweet lady in the Kent cafe was not comfortable with 'bara brith' for fear sales would not be good so re named it 'tea soaked cake'. She would have needed to promote it and give free samples like they do in the supermarket for Polish sausages.
She just called it something English instead. We have to promote ourselves. No one else will. [Post edited 31 Oct 2022 17:29]
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Very well said.
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| Wales on 17:49 - Oct 31 with 3221 views | Catullus |
| Wales on 17:02 - Oct 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Yes, the FAW already uses Cymru in all squad announcements, twitter is @Cymru, and even English language articles.
Its a natural progression for us to be seen as ‘CYM’ internationalky rather than ‘WAL’.
Please dont be scared, its just one word.
But its our word. â¤ï¸ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ |
Unsurprisingly you completely miessed the point despite the capitalsiation.
Why is it not Football association of Cymru or "Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru"
Who is scared? Why do you have to be so silly? | |
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| Wales on 19:58 - Oct 31 with 3158 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 17:49 - Oct 31 by Catullus |
Unsurprisingly you completely miessed the point despite the capitalsiation.
Why is it not Football association of Cymru or "Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru"
Who is scared? Why do you have to be so silly? |
You seemed rather scared and agitated.
No need though.
Be calm.
Both names will still exist far after anyone posting on here.
But its nice to use our own name for our nation in our own language.
Nice because its an ancient language.
Nice because of the platform football now provides on the international stage.
The imposition of English on the welsh people was cruel by any standard.
The resistance nothing short of heroic.
The fact both languages have equal status in law now is right and proper.
Dewch ymlaen Cymru ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ðŸ¥³ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ | |
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| Wales on 20:09 - Oct 31 with 3138 views | builthjack |
| Wales on 16:57 - Oct 31 by Catullus |
Hang on, the "Football Association of WALES" uses Cymru.
There you go then.
I have pointed out before that the name "Wales" was put on us as an insult. Personally I dont care what word people use, not that much. But shouldn't people be allowed to use the word they are more comfortable with, if that's the anglicised version then so be it. |
You don’t like the word Cymru.? | |
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| Wales on 20:19 - Oct 31 with 3121 views | britferry |
and we should be called Abertawe, we'll be top of the league then before every season starts
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| Wales on 21:21 - Oct 31 with 3062 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 20:19 - Oct 31 by britferry |
and we should be called Abertawe, we'll be top of the league then before every season starts
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Be good for confidence …..🦢 | |
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| Wales on 21:41 - Oct 31 with 3023 views | Catullus |
| Wales on 20:09 - Oct 31 by builthjack |
You don’t like the word Cymru.? |
I have no strong feelings about it, where did I say I did? It's just a word but some people seem to get really het up about it.
Posting a opinion, a fact or asking a question about something doesn't indicate a dislike any more than it suggests fear or anything negative. | |
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| Wales on 21:48 - Oct 31 with 3007 views | Catullus |
| Wales on 19:58 - Oct 31 by Kilkennyjack |
You seemed rather scared and agitated.
No need though.
Be calm.
Both names will still exist far after anyone posting on here.
But its nice to use our own name for our nation in our own language.
Nice because its an ancient language.
Nice because of the platform football now provides on the international stage.
The imposition of English on the welsh people was cruel by any standard.
The resistance nothing short of heroic.
The fact both languages have equal status in law now is right and proper.
Dewch ymlaen Cymru ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ðŸ¥³ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó ¿ |
I seemed what?  More nonsense. What was there to be scared or agtated about?
Both names, along with millions of other things will be here long after we are all gone. What is the relevance?
It wasn't our own name, as you've been told, it was a word used on us, a word used as an insult. The word "Welsh" is still used as an insult by some as in to welsh on a bet.
Many ancient languages died out mind, you don't hear Sanskrit, Yana or Beothuk being spoken these days but no one cries about that. It's a natural course of things.
Stop living in the past mun, stop crying about things from 600 years ago and more. Live in the modern world. You alway used to criticise people for living in the 70's yet you live in a world that makes the 70's seem like this morning. What are YOU scared of? | |
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| Wales on 22:38 - Oct 31 with 2970 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wales on 21:48 - Oct 31 by Catullus |
I seemed what? More nonsense. What was there to be scared or agtated about?
Both names, along with millions of other things will be here long after we are all gone. What is the relevance?
It wasn't our own name, as you've been told, it was a word used on us, a word used as an insult. The word "Welsh" is still used as an insult by some as in to welsh on a bet.
Many ancient languages died out mind, you don't hear Sanskrit, Yana or Beothuk being spoken these days but no one cries about that. It's a natural course of things.
Stop living in the past mun, stop crying about things from 600 years ago and more. Live in the modern world. You alway used to criticise people for living in the 70's yet you live in a world that makes the 70's seem like this morning. What are YOU scared of? |
Calm down mun.
Cymru is our own name, not Wales - obviously … 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ | |
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| Wales on 22:49 - Oct 31 with 2964 views | Whiterockin |
| Wales on 22:38 - Oct 31 by Kilkennyjack |
Calm down mun.
Cymru is our own name, not Wales - obviously … 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ |
Does it really matter either way. |  |
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| Wales on 23:11 - Oct 31 with 2929 views | owainglyndwr |
A lot of Welsh spoken and understood in the valleys around Swansea and the west .
My children now grown up both speak the language |  | | |
| Wales on 00:47 - Nov 1 with 2900 views | bennytheblue |
| Wales on 13:46 - Oct 31 by KeithHaynes |
I think around 35% over the age of three speak Welsh . |
No chance, and no I don’t believe the recent polls by the welsh government who I believe are fudging the figures to make it seem more popular. The only people I know who speak welsh went to Glantaff. Not that many people do. Got to laugh how they are jumping on the bandwagon of success lately, rugby gone down the tubes so what else they going to do? |  | | |
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