Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.’s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth ...
Recent changes in the distribution of the Welsh language are related to a process of empowerment of a Welsh-speaking elite that has come into being as a consequence of economic change, especially ...
Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the ...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending children to private schools in north Wales because "state ...
A word which baffled the producers of the latest series of Race Across the World is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the ...
A word which baffled producers of a hit BBC competition when it was used by Welsh participants is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. Fin told the ...
There’s an old Welsh saying "Mae’r tegell yn berwi a dwi’n barod" — the kettle is boiling, and I am ready. In Wales, that ...