From cjross@world.std.com Sun May  8 19:50:55 1994
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:45:27 -0400
From: cjross@world.std.com (chris ross)
To: jcb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Welsh humor


jeff -
(this is jeff, right? :-)

Here's that humorous swipe at Welsh place names I
told you about.  It's taken from a Dave Barry piece
entitled "Europe on five vowels a day."  Not quite
as long as I'd remembered, though.


    To their credit, some countries have made a sincere effort to
adopt English as their native language, a good example being England,
but even there you have problems.  My wife and I were driving around
England once, and we came to a section called "Wales," which is this
linguistically deformed area that apparently is too poor to afford
vowels.  All the road signs look like this:

		      LLWLNCWNRLLWNWRLLN -- 3 km

    It is a tragic sight indeed to see Welsh parents attempting to
sing traditional songs such as "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" to their
children and lapsing into heart-rending silence when they get to the
part about "E-I-E-I-O."


 -c