Do you know what an anch is?

[Believers]

My dc don't believe me that this is an actual word! And tbf to them, it's not one I hear much anymore. Just wondering how widely known it is.

Its a bite of a something

Yay!!!

Common word in this area. ‘Can I have and anch of your pastie?’

Double yay :)

Is it a North Walian thing? I'm South Wales and didn't know what an anch is. I do know what a cwtch is though

I'm south wales too @PlusLaMeme

I’m Welsh and never heard of it

Is it a Ch sound like munch? I've never heard it, but don't have any North Wales connections.

It's Welsh (colloquial) for bite

Yes. I'm from south wales so don't know if it's used in north wales. Although until tonight, I didn't realise it wasn't a widely known word.

I thought it was a bite? As in give me an Anch of that??

I've lived here all my life bar 10 years of young adulthood, and I honestly haven't heard that word before, even in my Welsh-Welsh circles.
Every day's a school day, eh?!

It's the Egyptian key of life

There’s a restaurant in Cardiff called Ansh

My mother says it, she is from the South Wales valleys

Is there really? Have you been?

I've been to Ansh. It's an Indian restaurant. And the word Ansh is Indian

Just googled it, and ironically Ansh in Indian means a serving of food, so linked to anch in a way I suppose

(I know the restaurant isn't linked to the Welsh word anch because I know the owners)

Oh so nothing to do with anch then. I'm pleased that some people have heard of it, my dc thought I was making it up!

I was brought up in England but my parents were from South Wales and I've never heard either of them use the expression. Maybe it's very localised.

There's also an excellent burger joint in Cardiff called Anch
www.ansh.cymru/

Ansh!

I'm welsh and immediately knew it meant bite!

Yes- Ansh Cardiff is lovely- sustainable Welsh burgers

So it seems that, even in Wales, it's not that well known.