Hi everyone,
This is not research as such and I apologize. I have read on another list that Huw
Edwards, the newsreader is presenting a series in the New Year on BBC about the
development of the Welsh language. Does anyone know if it will be broadcast nationwide
or just on BBC Wales? I doubt if I will be able to learn to speak Welsh but I would enjoy
hearing about the development of the language. I was reading recently that the Welsh word
braich (arm) derives from the Latin bracchia whereas coes (leg) is from the Celtic word
cosca.
My late father was Welsh speaking and I understand it was the language spoken in his
childhood home however he spent the first years of my life on active service during World
War Two. We moved from Wales to England not long after he returned home and except for a
few odd words he always spoke English. In fact it is only recently that I discovered that
Welsh was probably his first language. My mother and her family were English speaking
only so I never learnt to speak Welsh. It seems a shame that in just a short space of
time the Welsh language disappeared in my family.
Regards,
Margaret Harvey