*affectionate rasp* I know that - I was typing it from memory at the time. The teacher who taught me the song in primary school wasn't much good at his Welsh either.... I think it was the PE teacher, trying to get us all hyped for that trip to Llanelli RFC! ;-)
I have since looked it up on Wiki, 'cause I never learnt more than the first verse, and I just can not get the last verse to scan! *laughs*
I remember that song from when I was a child - that was about the only Welsh I ever heard from my mother's side of the family aside from "Gad dy lap" and "Ach a vie" (and I'm not even sure if that last one's really Welsh or how to spell it.) ;-)
'Ach i fi!' is most definitely Welsh :-) Even the non-speakers (like me!) know it. It's basically an exclamation of disgust, like "yuck" or "Ewww" - a lot of non-speakers pronounce it "Uck ee vee", 'cause of it's similarity to 'yuck'.
Not heard 'gad dy lap' before, though - what context was that used in?
"Ach i fi!" was my grandmother's favorite expression and the closest she ever came to swearing. (I remember her gasping in horror when she heard somebody saying "Bloody hell" on television.)
According to the website I looked it up on, "Gad dy lap" means "stop your babbling" although I remember translating it as a kid as "Shut up." :-)
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I have since looked it up on Wiki, 'cause I never learnt more than the first verse, and I just can not get the last verse to scan! *laughs*
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Plus I'd listened to the 'Only Boys Aloud' version five or six times so I had a slightly less familiar arrangement in my head ;-)
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Not heard 'gad dy lap' before, though - what context was that used in?
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According to the website I looked it up on, "Gad dy lap" means "stop your babbling" although I remember translating it as a kid as "Shut up." :-)
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