Would any welsh MNs be up for our own subforum?

[thevassal]

I know we are not as numerous but we are enthusiastic! MN currently has a Craicnet and a Scotsnet but no Walesnet! If you think this would be something you'd use please comment here or on the post below in site stuff (or on both!). Any name suggestions also welcome - Ddraignet was one, or the more traditional Walesnet/Cymrunet?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4291140-Can-we-please-have-a-Welsh-sub-forum-Ddraignet?watched=1&msgid=108889039#108889039

You wouldn't even have to be Welsh/living in Wales - it would be a good resource for people looking for holiday advice for example.

Yes please! 🐲

Ie plïs!Syniad da!

Yes to this.

My daughter is studying in Wales, I'm always reading the Covid Wales thread.
I'm in England but I'm Welsh.

Yes The Cwtch!!!

Definitely YES Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿!

Count me out if you are calling it Cwtch. That's not a Welsh word

Cwtsh is.

Welsh
English
cwtsh recess n.m.
kennel n.m.
cuddle n.m.
cupboard n.m.
cubby-hole n.m.
cuddle n.m.
hug n.m.

Totally on board with a Welsh board!

@BestIsWest

I know all about Owen, his dodgy selling of the parsnips at the nightclub, the bridge he built to get to the parsnips and the scrap he had with the parsnip farmer. I’ve just finished level 1 of SAy Something in Welsh and it’s great but I do wish there was a transcript as sometimes I find it hard to decipher what they are saying.

As well as Owen the pannas perp I like the dragon who is moving to Swansea when he retires .

Yes of course to those that asked, all welsh-adjacent and welsh-admirers welcome!

I think a name non-Welsh (speakers) would recognise would be good? Less exciting but more likely to draw in people who want advice on moving here? There's quite a lot of threads like that. So I'd probably be dull and go with Welshnet or the like - or I liked the original suggestion of Ddraig / Dragon

Draig is better than Ddraig, but Draignet looks too much like Dragnet

Sgwrsnet?

Syniad gwych!

Poor MNHQ will have been on google translate duties all day

Could have a pub name like the Red Dragon (stunning originality I know. But a pity to waste the dragon)

I'm only a little bit Welsh ( Welsh great grandparent) but that little bit is very patriotic. I have Welsh speaking relatives in Wales still so hopefully that counts for something :) I'd love to join !

Another vote for draignet (or whatever else it ends up being called).

Tip for anyone learning Welsh or wanting to learn Welsh is watch Pobol Y Cwm with English subtitles - they have even had a Welsh learner as a character on there! You can watch it live on S4C or catchup online via S4C Clic.

Not if you want to be understood by us gogs

I agree with PP cwtch is not a word we use up here in the armpit

We'll all argue so much that there will be two welsh boards started and some of us will avoid one of the threads and thats when we know its truly welsh, cant have a welsh village without two chapels and one of them is to be avoided at all costs

@JustAnotherPoster00, see my post above. It's cwtsh not cwtch. I'm a gog too, and the implication that it is a special word irritates me.

Cwmderi has quite a diverse range of accents for the Valleys.

Welsh accents article

Taffnet?

@JustAnotherPoster00

We'll all argue so much that there will be two welsh boards started and some of us will avoid one of the threads and thats when we know its truly welsh, cant have a welsh village without two chapels and one of them is to be avoided at all costs

But YY anyway! I like the suggestion of a pub name Y Ddraig Goch / The Red Dragon (please, please tell me this isn't different up North !)

Yes

I can't think of a single pub called Y Ddraig Goch, Most seem to have english names like Red Lion or Kings Head.

Maybe something like WelshNet might be better.

How do you define welshness?

To some it will be by parentage, some by being born in Wales, and others by fluency in the language.

I don't like taffnet either. FWIW, I'm welsh by parentage, birthplace and mother tongue, but I'm a Gog.

@JustAnotherPoster00 Clearly we need a Gognet . (Goes off muttering about how Machynlleth is really the capital...)

Out of interest, if people from north Wales are 'gogs', what do you call my adoptive people here in South Wales?