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Claire 🧙‍♂️
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PhD student at Prifysgol Bangor studying prophecy in Brut y Brenhinedd
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New name for fresher's flu: the Carmarthenshire Ague
Welsh/English dictionary entry Afiechyd, sef cryd neu gryndod, a oedd gynt yn dra chyffredin mewn lleoedd gwlybion neu gorslyd (yn sir Gaerf. ac yn enw. yn ardal Cors Fochno yng ngogledd Cered.) ac y credid ei achosi gan widdon, y ddeirton: intermittent or tertian fever, ague, a sickness which was formerly very common in wet and boggy places (in Carmarthenshire and esp. in the vicinity of Cors Fochno in north Cardiganshire) (lit. hag’s disease)
August 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Welsh/English dictionary entry for 'golchi'n wyn': whitewashing, 'making a temporary profession of the Popish religion. 1769.
August 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Welsh/English dictionary entry for 'Gwryd Aberystwyth': the Aberystwyth fathom, measuring five feet six inches
June 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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What's a book cover (or covers) that's burned itself into your brain?

🎵 Big hands I know you're the one 🎵
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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New triad just dropped
Welsh/English dictionary entry reading bedd angof: grave of forgetfulness, oblivion beddau’r blys: graves of lust bedd tatws: potato clamp
May 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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And my favorite of favorites, Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994) or even later, Highway Companion (2006)
May 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I was also impressed with Alphabetland by X, which came out in 2020.
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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So many of Elvis Costello's, but I have a soft spot for Brutal Youth
May 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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You know, we do need more specific vocabulary relating to the man in the moon
Welsh/English dictionary entry for 'baich drain': burden of thorns, esp. that carried perpetually by the man in the moon, fig. woe, imprisonment, &c.
April 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Welsh/English dictionary entry for Cythraul y seti: jealousy caused by apportioning of pews in Nonconformist chapels. 19th century.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Welsh/English dictionary entry for Mydd, midd Llestr, dysgl, celwrn, llestr (diod) mawr; mesur gwlyb cyfwerth â 64 o alwyni (yn ôl Iolo Morganwg); hefyd yn ffig.: vessel, dish, tub, large (drink) vessel; liquid measure equal to 64 gallons (according to Iolo Morganwg); also fig.
April 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Cawsâf: cawsa. To beg cheese, collect cheese
February 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ceirch yr achos: oats provided by Nonconformist congregations for the horses of itinerant preachers (lit. the oats of the cause)
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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New favorite thing: highly specific historical phrases
Dictionary entry for Byddin bysgota: an organized gang of salmon poachers (in Pembrokeshire)
February 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Merlin after he throws a deer at his wife's husband
The Times article titled 'I consciously uncoupled and moved from the suburbs to Snowdonia'
February 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Today's Merlin
Is:
°Stanley Tucci
°Responsible for the Book of Cyber Kells (!)
Is not:
°A Decepticon
°Relevant to the rest of the plot of Transformers 4
Stanley Tucci in armor, on a horse, with a lot of hair
January 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Enamored with LOTR (1978) Treebeard
Treebeard from the animated LOTR. A humanoid figure made of bark with very few branches
December 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 11:10 AM