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24th March 07, 06:05 AM
#24
 Originally Posted by McClef
Simple, Welsh doesn't have a letter K as C is always hard. Not all vowels are used as in English and some consonants become vowels. Y would be used for U (or sometimes for I) as U has a long E sound. A single F is a V so you need two FFs for an F.
And if you think that's complicated, Gaelic orthography is even worse! 
The word that's often used to fox English radio/TV announcers isn't LlanfairPG (that would be cruel: Llanfair pwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch , just to show off) but Cwmtwrch.
As for Gaelic - how about Beinn Laomainn (Ben Lomond) to take a simple one?
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