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    How do you pronounce this..

    please?

    https://www.theguardian.com/environm...downing-street


    Downing Street has stepped into a growing row over a decision to ditch the English name of the Brecon Beacons in favour of the old Welsh one, Bannau Brycheiniog.
    The prime minister’s official spokesperson said he was sure people would continue to use the national park’s English name and questioned the move to drop a symbol of a flaming beacon from the park’s logo.

    Park leaders have said the decision to move away from the English name was partly to show support for the Welsh language and because a fiery greenhouse gas-emitting beacon did not fit well with its ethos of creating a more sustainable, nature-rich area.
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    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    please?

    https://www.theguardian.com/environm...downing-street


    Downing Street has stepped into a growing row over a decision to ditch the English name of the Brecon Beacons in favour of the old Welsh one, Bannau Brycheiniog.
    The prime minister’s official spokesperson said he was sure people would continue to use the national park’s English name and questioned the move to drop a symbol of a flaming beacon from the park’s logo.

    Park leaders have said the decision to move away from the English name was partly to show support for the Welsh language and because a fiery greenhouse gas-emitting beacon did not fit well with its ethos of creating a more sustainable, nature-rich area.
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    except the new logo has a brazier in it?

    https://bannau.wales/
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      Is it brazen to want to have a beacon to strive for? Nobody will use the new name because no one can pronounce it or know what it means

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        #4
        Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
        Is it brazen to want to have a beacon to strive for? Nobody will use the new name because no one can pronounce it or know what it means
        its sounds like a Caribbean island, I'm off to Bannau for 3 weeks! They are in for a shock.
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
          Is it brazen to want to have a beacon to strive for? Nobody will use the new name because no one can pronounce it or know what it means
          Fat white middle-aged men will deliberately fail at pronouncing it on purpose. Everyone else will find it remarkably easy.
          Nobody knows what the English name means either so really, WGAS.
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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            #6
            Bannau is "peaks" and the other bit is "belongs to Brychan", an ancient local chieftain. So as a name it predates the Romans by some way. And the new logo is supposed to represent a crown, apparently.

            Beacon itself has many uses, many of which don't require flames, and is quoted in Beowulf somewhere around 900AD, where it is used to mean a prominent hill.

            However this is the idiots in Cardiff ignoring their real job (at which they are singularly failing) in favour of distraction activity, fuelled by a deep failure to understand wither history or their own language(s).

            No sane Welshman - so not Michael Sheen, for instance - will take the least bit of notice.
            Blog? What blog...?

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              #7
              Originally posted by malvolio View Post
              No sane Welshman - so not Michael Sheen, for instance - will take the least bit of notice.
              But it's got people talking about it and as a tourist spot, that is surely a good think. Tourists lap up funny local place-names
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                #8
                Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                But it's got people talking about it and as a tourist spot, that is surely a good think. Tourists lap up funny local place-names
                Funny? Typical Sais reaction
                Blog? What blog...?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                  Tourists lap up funny local place-names
                  "Downing Street" because this is the street where Nadine went down on the clown.

                  "Buckingham Palace" because this is where Call Me Dave put his todger in a pig.

                  "Slough" because of John Bunyan's prophetic description

                  "Wookey Hole" where Chewbacca bent over.

                  …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                    #10
                    There are a few people attempting to pronounce it in this video:
                    Brecon Beacons: Park to use Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog - BBC News
                    The correct version is 13 seconds in, roughly "Bannow Brick-ain-yog".

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