Doesn’t stop it from being a vowel. But yes, it is a bit more like goo-in. Well, more like goo-een. It’s actually the Y that slips slightly because normally it should sound more like an ‘uh’ sound.
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They certainly do.
I’m not even vaguely implying ‘persecution’, but it’s disappointing that commenters at a site so focused on issues of gender, sexuality and race think it’s absolutely fine to casually mock a different minority at every opportunity. What’s next? Red-haired people? They have infinite patience with an endless stream of little jokes, too.
I wouldn’t say I’m particularly humourless, but PLEASE just give it a rest about the Welsh.
I am Welsh, and I think the Welsh language is wonderful.
But it’s also hilarious, and quite able to withstanding a few jokes. I would even go so far as to say that if you’ve grown up in Wales, you need to have a sense of humour about the place. If you took it seriously, it’d be unbearable.
This site rarely picks on the Welsh, and I have not noticed an above average incidence of Welsh-bashing by it’s commenters either.
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Was about to log in to say this - I see it so often.
It’s quite commonly used as one of those “insult the language without being too racist” kind of jokes. Full disclosure; Welshie living ~50 miles from London.
I am apparently Welsh, My parents always told me I was Irerosh sometimes Norewigen.
Is there something I should know?
Yep; done that, and as I say, I’m not totally humourless. It just grates that any and every mention of Wales or the Welsh is invariably an excuse to mock; it’s simply routine. A little gentle teasing is fine, once in a while. Just not every ****ing time.
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, merely that for some reason I’d expected a below average incidence of casual ‘Welsh-bashing’ from BB.
Hey, nobody is making jokes on the Welsh dog thread (I think). 
I did wonder about deleting my first post on this thread, it was a kinda lazy joke that I regret. In my (admittedly flimsy) defence, I didn’t think it was mean spirited and I am (half) Welsh.
The Wikipedia article to which you link quotes Arika Okrent as guessing around 20 - 30 fluent speakers. (Contrast to the infographic which says ~a dozen.) I have to wonder about the use of “fluent” there. As the article points out, it’s only got about 3,000 “official” words, so by what standard is fluency being measured? I know at least a dozen people in the Chicago area that can have a conversation, albeit a limited one, in Klingon.
None of this is to say that the number of Klingon speakers outnumber Welsh speakers, of course. Esperanto on the other hand …
(Then again, I don’t have any music sung in Esperanto, a fact for which I might just be grateful.)
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