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There are a lot of words you can't say in Standard English. Welsh words are a good example. e.g gwydd, llwyd, ydych, and

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob wllllantysiliogogogoch. (There shouldn't be a space in this word, but Wiki couldn't cope with a word with 58 letters!)

And how would you ask questions such as "Ydy Gwen yn mynd?"

Not forgetting, of course, that well known saying 'Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon!'

THE PROBLEM IS that the standard English pronunciation of letters in English words is quite different from the way that letters/words are pronounced in Welsh words. How should a 'w', or 'll', or 'words without vowels' be pronounced in a sentence consisting of Welsh words?

IT IS POSSIBLE to provide phonetic equivalents that might help an English person, but some Welsh sounds are unique to Welsh words and there are no corresponding sounds in standard English that can be used as examples!

Of course, one could learn to speak Welsh, but that isn't standard English, it's Welsh!

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