Tag: welsh
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Your Wood-Inspired Words & Places
Thanks to everyone who entered our June book giveaway to win a copy of The Forest Guide to England, Wales or Scotland by Gabriel Hemery. The responses formed a lovely collection of favourite words and place-names related to trees or woods, complementing Brian Palmer’s article on Woods and the Welsh language. I have attempted to…
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Woods and the Welsh language
by Brian Palmer Historically Wales remained a wooded land for longer than most of the rest of Britain, and the importance of woods and trees was probably higher in Wales than elsewhere as they were places of sanctuary rather than commercial. As a consequence the Welsh language and many place-names are closely associated with the…