Sayings of Welsh Parents

[C0rdelia]

You tell them something mildly interesting.

Nooooor. I never.

I love this thread

I’ve enjoyed this thread so much that I’ve signed up to the Say Something I pin Welsh course. After a couple of glasses of wine.

One of my grandma's favourite insuits - mochyn y diawl.

My grandma and aunty used to have black tea with pieces of cheese on bread floating in it. I can't remember what they called it now.

Oh and this confused me for years - we used to call green beans kidney beans. Did anyone else's family do this?!

So many of these :)

@fiftyandmore
Yes they were kidney beans at grandparents also spring onions were called gibbons (pronounced jibbons). Am told it comes from shibwns.

I remember telling non Welsh people about Welsh cakes and pancos but they had no idea what I was talking about. As a child I assumed everyone ate them.

Kidney beans - my dad would have them on their own with butter and bread and he would say
‘I ‘ave ‘ad a feed of beans.’

Man jike! Can anyone translate this? My valleys grandmother used to exclaim this when we were about to “cop it” - I’m assuming it’s an annoyed word

Surprised that no one so far has remembered having a pwdi!

We always used a couple to mean more than two.
My mum would talk of "a twelvemonth" rather than a year.
My Dad spoke of his "grancha" though we called our grandparents
Grampa and Gran followed by surname when all four were alive.

Jow Lariod a meplyn peploeth

The first part is Diawl erioed - never the devil.
I think the second part is er mwyn popeth - for the sake of everything.

You mean PWDU? Having a sulk!

@Choccyp1g I always used 'a couple' interchangeably with 'a few' until I moved to England in my twenties...I was astounded when someone explained to me that a couple only meant two of something!

@Allthedoggos Some strange people think that a couple means exactly two and a few means exactly three.
No!! In my language, they both mean "some" !

[quote Youandmealwaysandforever]@fiftyandmore
Yes they were kidney beans at grandparents also spring onions were called gibbons (pronounced jibbons). Am told it comes from shibwns.[/quote]
This is a perfect example of me thinking a Welsh(ish) word was English - I've always called spring onions gibbons and assumed it was just another word for them!

Lovely thread. My DF was from the valleys, but we lived in west London. So many of these phrases were used at home, and I realise I still use.

My DF wanted to call me Myfanwy.

'Ych a fi' is Ugh at me, not you.

Donkeys' years

Diawl (sound like Jowl) not Diawel.

'Yn de' or 'Un aye' at the end of sentences.

Ci rhech - lap dog

Ive just been all round the 'reakin @FunnysInLaJardin

Isn't it 'all round the Wrekin'.

So many of these take me right back to school days.

'Paid a malu cachu' was one we used all the time - literally don't break shit i.e. don't talk a load of shit

'O Mam Bach' too.

I remember there was a character on TV (maybe from Bilidowcar) who used 'Twmpath twp' for an exceptionally dim person.

And everything was 'bludi' this and 'bludi' that

As kids we thought the phrase 'twll dîn iâr wedi chwyddo' (withered chickens bum) was the height of hilarity - though I can't recall it ever being used in an actual conversation!

Miss my Naini and Taidi ♥️

twmpath twp is from anturiaethau syr wynff a plwmsan

I think you mean:

Twmffat twp

Twmpath is a mound