Reply to: How do you pronounce this..

[vetran]

Send them to Sluff.

good job we have a massive Royal Mail site!

[WTFH]

hey if we can't pronounce it where do we send the benefit cheques?

Send them to Sluff.

[vetran]

Cornish names are hard enough already, some places even the locals can't agree how their own town should be pronounced

hey if we can't pronounce it where do we send the benefit cheques?

[d000hg]

Thanks!

I think all place names in the Wales, Scotland and Cornwall should be known in the language of the area on maps.

Helps to confuse tourists

Cornish names are hard enough already, some places even the locals can't agree how their own town should be pronounced

[SueEllen]

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".

Thanks!

I think all place names in the Wales, Scotland and Cornwall should be known in the language of the area on maps.

Helps to confuse tourists

[malvolio]

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".

"Bann-eye" actually.

Welsh is weird. The letters and dipthongs dont chage their pronunciation but the words do to make them sound nicer. So Bach ("small") becomes Fach if it follows a hard consonant. Can get confusing!

[hobnob]

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".

[WTFH]

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.

[malvolio]

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

[d000hg]

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

[malvolio]

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.

[d000hg]

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.

[vetran]

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.

[tazdevil]

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

[vetran]

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.

except the new logo has a brazier in it?

https://bannau.wales/