re: #890 yma o hyd

The gorgeous holiday visitor (four-legged) went home yesterday … I do miss him, and i don’t know what to do with my left hand, now that I don’t ahve a dog on his lead there …

As for the pronounciation - the ‘y’ in ‘yma’ is a short, dark-sounding ‘i’, as it ‘wit’, not found in the English language. The ‘a’ is an ‘a’ as in ‘b-a-ll’, and the stress is on the ‘y’.

The ‘y’ in ‘hyd’, however, is a long, dark-sounding ‘i’, as in ‘weep’ - again, difficult to describe, not found in the English language.

Oh - and the ‘o’ is short, as in ‘bottle’ …

How Welsh was invented! :)