About the rugby bit lets see what happens in the Autmn internationals, we are spectacularly good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Just look at the mighty Ospreys, bloody hell that was close last weekend.
It's for bigoted opinions like this that im my experience wherever you go in the world the English are universally disliked. However the mood lightens when you inform them you are infact from wales.
strictly speaking 'w' & 'y' are also vowels in English but we pretend they're not 🙂 Try saying them and observe that your vocal tract is open and unobstructed, unlike for consonants where there is some obstruction…
strictly speaking 'w' & 'y' are also vowels in English but we pretend they're not Try saying them and observe that your vocal tract is open and unobstructed, unlike for consonants where there is some obstruction…
Not true! With W sounds the air flow is partly constricted by the lips, and with Y it is constricted by the tongue. There isn't a complete closure, but it counts as a consonant.
It's not vowels that's strange in Welsh, it's consonants. On the one hand, there's no "j", "q", "x" (taxi = tacsi!), "k", "v" or "z". On the other, they have "ff", "ph", "ll" and "dd".
The welsh can't pronounce their "language" propperly either, they just made it on the spur of the moment to offend you english folk for a laugh since they got their arses kicked by you. It's a petty form of rebellion but it keeps the livestock interfering folk happy. 😀