So... do the Welsh not share, or the English not like em???

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Welsh DH, living in Bournemouth... Every few months I might come across a supermarket selling Welsh butter - but they pretty much all sell Irish and Somerset. You can't buy Welsh cakes anywhere here, yet you can get all kind of American style cakey things. Its not like you need a little cake shop to get em in Wales - Tescos sell em, so surely they could ship a few through the rest of the UK???

Its sad, we haven't got much money right now, so his valentine's present was butter .

Soooo... why is it?? Are the Welsh just very possesive over their butter and cakes, or do shops think there is no market for it in non-Wales???

I have trouble with Llanelli too.

Use the Swansea Cork ferry once a year. My favourite times are when we are going to Wales and not passing through!

Will do now Hausfrau - wasn't on last night as it was DD's birthday and I also had a rehearsal

Can I join in - mum from Hirwaun and dad from Llangors.
Do you know, it's only just now reading this thread that I have realised that 'cwch' is Welsh. Have just tried to remember whether I have heard it outside the family and realised that I haven't! They definitely don't say it up here in Scotland. By the way, I find a strong Welsh accent very useful here when teaching things like the Act of Union.

Anyone else use the word 'spench'? I think it might be a N Wales word....

libra- do you mean cwtch for cuddle or cwch for boat?
LOL

cwtch is a south walian word- not used much up here in the north although with S4C the dialects are becoming much more mixed.

welshmum- never heard of spench- deffo not north walian- unless its wrexham way

Hmmm...my nain had a spench, so did my mam and now I've got one. We come from the North Wales coast.....

Sorry - cwtch for cuddle (can't spell either)

Welshmum- let us in ont the secret then- what's a spench?

Up Nans etc... reminds me of broad Somerset.

I am currently 'up over bridge' to my family

Dh goes 'down shed'- about 50 mile journey!

Dap always makes me laugh, as it means:-

"about my dap" Meaning about my build and size

"set of daps for the car" - set of tyres

"new pair of daps" - new pair of trainers! I love it!

Also, went into a pub in Aberdare and there was a coat on the floor someone had dropped. The publican who had a very broad Aberdare accent said "Whorse coart is that ja - cket hanging up on the flo-or" (whose coat is that jacket hanging up on the floor) He couldn't understnad why we were laughing!

My friends mum from Abergavenny always thought it was funny that the English had a different definition of "couple" to the Welsh. She said that to her "a couple of quid is ten or twenty pounds", she sold a new toilet seat to her neighbours and asked them to give her a couple of quid for it and them, being English gave her £2. She was gutted as it had cost her £30 new!

I love "Whorse coart is that ja - cket hanging up on the flo-or"

It reminds me somehow of "I'll be there now in a minute" which always makes me smile.

I say the 'I'll be there now in a minute' thing! Nvere thought about it before!

Over by there and over by 'ure.

Don't be so twp, mun!

And 'I do'. I don't use this, but most of my school friends used to , 'I do go down the road' 'I do go shopping' and even once the memorable 'I do do the washing up' !

I love it that here and ear are almost indistinguishable - by ure with my ure-ings.

do you dap balls

what's that in English?

Pixiefish - a spench is the cupboard under the stairs, tall enough to stand up in and usually the repository for brooms and hoovers and assorted bits and bobs. Am I the only person who uses this word?

PMSL at this Welsh talk. My mum is a welsh lady but now lives in Dorset. Her family still live in South Wales and we try to visit as much as possible. I lived there for a year when I went to college and picked up on some of these things myself.
I remember waiting at the bus stop one evening listening to two old Welsh ladies. They were chatting away in Welsh. Every so often a few English words would pop up. It really made me laugh. Maaaaaarvelous!

One of my faves was my cousin telling her son "I'll be there now after"

I remember our headmaster giving us all a lecture on some piece of vandalism in his strong North Walian accent '.....I know who you are and when I find out......'

PMSL

Years ago my cousin was a sister in a teaching hospital. They pitched up at a ward round with a high up, very welsh consultant, and about 10 students. they all stood round a patient who was in bed, quite ill and bright yellow.

the students eventualy deduced that the poor man was jaundiced

'Right', says the big consultant, 'signs and symptoms of jaundice'. All the students came up with something, except the last who was shit scared at failing to think of something. My cousin said the consultant threw his hands up into the air and in the strongest of strong South Walian accent shouted, 'The maaan is depressed, boy, depressed. He is depressed, like you bloody lot make me!

I love a cwtch! I used to cwtch my children to sleep in a Welsh blanket when they were babies (an ingenious wrapping method taught to me by my grandmother!). My dog used to sleep in the cwtch dan sdar. And I too wear daps.