Comments on: Today’s New Word: “Tuttled”

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:36:57 +0000

That’s interesting, and I stand corrected. I’d enourage you to go and update the Wikipedia article — or at least post in its Talk page — so that can get corrected.

I wasn’t trying to say that people speak only English in those areas. I did know about the Welsh language already, believe it or not. And of course there are large immigrant populations in some areas too.

Just trying to make a little joke.

By: cliff

cliff — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:47:39 +0000

This is some good reading. Your dummied down version of a few days ago, helped me to understand what’s going on.
On your 3-31 blog, I have never even thought that there would be people not accustomed to the howling of the pack.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:20:52 +0000

Well, I grew up in Wales and there are parts where many of the old people only speak Welsh. Welsh is compulsarily taught in schools up to the age of about 14. It felt as though you were stating that people in Wales only spoke English, which is why I commented. I don’t know the statistics, but Wikipedia’s claim of 20% of people knowing any Welsh sounds very unlikely – you can’t miss the language when you’re in Wales, all the road signs are in Welsh first then English, and also all government documentation.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:11:04 +0000

According to Wikipedia, only 20% of the people in Wales know any Welsh at all, and almost none are monolingual in Welsh. Though they are both official languages.

But I was correct that they speak English in Wales. Though certain English people would probably claim otherwise, just as they would about the United States :-)

By: pete

pete — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:23:04 +0000

No, in Wales they speak Welsh, as well as or instead of English.