Welsh TV Programming

Ahh yeh, I kinda get it.. Sorry! Thought for a minute you were trying to give a correct dictionary translation there

Even less difficult is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

LOL - I went there once. I didnt realise it was on Anglesey until I went there

OR simply Llanfair PG

So basically they ran out of their own words so they had to start stealing them? The Irish try harder:

Otharcharr - Ambulance
Páistì- Children
Ceol - Music
Garáiste - Shed
Rugbaì - Rugby
Páirc - Stdium
Bosca- Box
Tri - Three
Cluiche - Game
Traein - Trains

Even less difficult is Baile Átha an Rì (longest placename in Ireland I can think of)

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk is the longest URL in existence

Well no - Welsh like English evolved from the languages surrounding it - so a lot of words are shared - i mean whoever decided to call an ambulance an ambulance must have had a reason - and it was just Welshified.

Good point about the word Ambulance. The German word for ambulance is something like "kranken-wagen" (sp?) which literally means something like "illness vehicle". That name makes total sense! Whereas the English word "ambulance" does not contain any elements of other English words that would convey its purpose or its vehicular nature. English is a bloomin' dog's-dinner of a language, really...

I don't agree...

Welsh is a very old language mush!!!! Everyone spoke Welsh in Britain in the 6th century until the Anglo-Saxons came and robbed all our land. Welsh is one of the oldest languages in Europe.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The earliest extant sources of a language identifiable as Welsh go back to about the 6th century, and the language of this period is known as Early Welsh. Very little of this language remains. The next main period, somewhat better attested, is Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) (9th to 11th centuries);

(St. Davids Day, 1st March )

One of the few words i know in welsh is Gorsef which is station. When i went there as a kid I kept thinking that we were in a town called Gorsef because I kept seeing signs saying 'Gorsef Station'

LOL, it's actually gors a f , but close enough.

I was going to say.... Welsh is one of the oldest languages still in existence and pre-dates the majority of what is spoken around the world, including English, by a long way.

Incidentally, the post made earlier with the Welsh "translations" are there purely for irony's sake and are not representative of real Welsh. They are examples of a few more modern words where the most common usage is a slight "Welsh-i-fying" of the word used in English... but there are occasionally "proper" Welsh words to replace these, but in the South especially where few people speak Welsh, they are not used in favour of more English translations.

Ambiwlans - Ambulance
Plant - Children
Miwsig - Music - Cerddoriaeth
Sied - Shed - Penty
Rygbi - Rugby
Stadiwm - Stadium
Bocs - Box - Blwch
Tri - Three
Gem - Game - the plural is far different: chwaraeon and could possibly be used singularly, as chwarae - i.e. to play a game
Trenau - Trains

Welsh is a very difficult language to master if you've not been brought up speaking it... I heard a great quote the other day comparing learning it to something almost impossible... I wish I could remember what it was! My English father has lived in Wales since long before I was born 23 years ago, and despite the rest of us all speaking Welsh, he can still only understand a very very small amount, barely a few words.