Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English

[Richard Hakluyt]

Meri, this is the place to go and get your Welsh pronunciation sorted http://www.nantgwrtheyrn.org/

Getting to the pub is a rather stiff 2-mile uphill walk though. I camped in that valley back in the 80s when the village was derelict apart from one house with an enthusiastic Welsh teacher and his single student in it 

I can stay for six months without a Visa, right?

Yes, but you mustn't work 

[merithyn]

Meri, this is the place to go and get your Welsh pronunciation sorted http://www.nantgwrtheyrn.org/

Getting to the pub is a rather stiff 2-mile uphill walk though. I camped in that valley back in the 80s when the village was derelict apart from one house with an enthusiastic Welsh teacher and his single student in it 

I can stay for six months without a Visa, right?

Yes, but you mustn't work 

Okay.

[mongers]

Meri, this is the place to go and get your Welsh pronunciation sorted http://www.nantgwrtheyrn.org/

Getting to the pub is a rather stiff 2-mile uphill walk though. I camped in that valley back in the 80s when the village was derelict apart from one house with an enthusiastic Welsh teacher and his single student in it 

I can stay for six months without a Visa, right?

I think you'd go stir-crazy first. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Meri, this is the place to go and get your Welsh pronunciation sorted http://www.nantgwrtheyrn.org/

Getting to the pub is a rather stiff 2-mile uphill walk though. I camped in that valley back in the 80s when the village was derelict apart from one house with an enthusiastic Welsh teacher and his single student in it 

Good grief, that's an out of the way place, I used to live opposite the Llŷn Peninsula and it often looked a god forsaken place in most Welsh weather.

There was a big storm while we were camping there, I was trapped in my tent for 48 hours with only a gorgeous 22-year old Japanese girl for company 

We were tough in those days though and inured to hardship 

[derspiess]

All I know about Wales is found in the fine old nursery rhyme about Taffy the Welshman. 

Is there anything good about Wales?  All I ever hear seems to be negative.

[The Brain]

All I know about Wales is found in the fine old nursery rhyme about Taffy the Welshman. 

Is there anything good about Wales?  All I ever hear seems to be negative.

Charles.

[merithyn]

All I know about Wales is found in the fine old nursery rhyme about Taffy the Welshman. 

Is there anything good about Wales?  All I ever hear seems to be negative.

The scenery is incredible. I only made it from England across the southern end through Cardiff and Swansea, but it was really gorgeous. We drove back to the north of Cardiff, and I absolutely fell in love with the place.

Plus, we spent half the day in Cardiff, and the people there were absolutely lovely. So gracious and kind, and not just because I'm an American, either. I was with a good friend who had lived in Wales for 15 years and "sounded" like one of them. They were just lovely people.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I'm only familiar with North Wales but find it a good place to visit. It's an area of attractive scenery, small towns and villages. A high percentage of the hotels and pubs are mildly eccentric and have not succumbed to corporate blandness. The weather is excellent of course, as it is throughout Britain.

[garbon]

In school I went to something on the Rhyl to Conwy bit and then back out to Chester (as well as visited a bit of Offa's Dyke). I guess it was pretty (very green) but it was also grey and rainy so nothing too exciting.  Did see more sheep than I've ever seen in my life.

[garbon]

I went to Conwy!

http://garbose.blogspot.com/2007/01/wales-borderlands.html

Although you can't see it well, I found it odd that the local townspeople seem content to let boats rot away along the coast near the castle.

[Richard Hakluyt]

There are some good castles as well, among the best in the world that is. King Edward I built some of the best ones to help secure the area.

[Malthus]

There are some good castles as well, among the best in the world that is. King Edward I built some of the best ones to help secure the area.

"The best parts of our fine Welsh heritage are Offa's Dyke and the castles of Edward I - in short, things built by foreigners to keep the Welsh under control" 

[mongers]

Meri, this is the place to go and get your Welsh pronunciation sorted http://www.nantgwrtheyrn.org/

Getting to the pub is a rather stiff 2-mile uphill walk though. I camped in that valley back in the 80s when the village was derelict apart from one house with an enthusiastic Welsh teacher and his single student in it 

Good grief, that's an out of the way place, I used to live opposite the Llŷn Peninsula and it often looked a god forsaken place in most Welsh weather.

There was a big storm while we were camping there, I was trapped in my tent for 48 hours with only a gorgeous 22-year old Japanese girl for company 

We were tough in those days though and inured to hardship 

Yes you had it hard in those days. 

[garbon]

There are some good castles as well, among the best in the world that is. King Edward I built some of the best ones to help secure the area.

"The best parts of our fine Welsh heritage are Offa's Dyke and the castles of Edward I - in short, things built by foreigners to keep the Welsh under control" 

Whoever said that was lying. Offa's Dyke is a long mound of dirt.

[Razgovory]

She's a bitch as well.