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There are a number of
traditional rhymes relating to places in
{Between braces, in purple type, I have added
comments}
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Y Bala
Dowcars y Bala
Heb ddim 'fala;
Dowcars y dre
Bara gwyn a the.
Byddai pobl yr Abermaw {sic}
yn gwawdio pobl Penllyn a phobl Dolgellau yr un modd, -
{People from Abermaw ("Barmouth") would
make fun of the people of Penllyn and the people of Dolgellau in the same way:}
Dowcars y Bala
Heb ddim 'fala;
Dowcars y dre
Bara gwyn a the.
{Dowcer is literally 'diver, bird which
dives', from dialect English 'dowker', from 'ducker', from 'to duck'. 'Dowcer'
was applied to the razorbill, and also to the cormorant (bilidowcer - 'Billy
the diver'). As a nickname it meant people from places inland who came for a
day at the seaside.
The daytrippers (from) y Bala
Without any apples
The daytrippers (from) the town (= Dolgellau)
White bread and tea.}
"Llysenwau" (nicknames) Cymru, Cyfrol (volume) 3. 1892.
Tudalen (page) 138
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Y Goetre Fawr, Sir Fynwy
Goetre glawd
Heb na bara na blawd.
An
old saying of the parish of Goitre {= Y Goetre},
which has a poor, hungry soil, is
Goitre glawd
Heb na bara na blawd.
{In standard Welsh,"Goetre dlawd, heb na
bara na blawd" = poor Goetre, with neither bread nor flour. In the
south-east, "clawd" is used instead of "tlawd".}
The Gwentian Dialect. JOSEPH A. BRADNEY, Tal-y-coed. Archaeologia Cambrensis
Seventh Series. Volume 1. Year: ?? (?1895) tudalennau 145-146
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Castell-nedd
See Mynachlog-nedd.
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Dolgellau, Gwynedd
See Y Bala.
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Llanfachreth
Llanfachreth yr uwd tew,
A'i lond o flew cyffyle.
Byddai
pobl y ddwy ochr i'r Garneddwen yn gwawdio bwydydd ei gilydd. Ebe pobl Penllyn,
{People on both sides of the Garneddwen would
make fun of each other's lives. The Penllyn people would say}
Llanfachreth yr uwd tew,
A'i lond o flew cyffyle.
{Llanfachreth (of) the thick porrisdge, full of
horse hairs}
Ac ebai pobl Llanfachreth yn ôl, -
{And the Llanfachreth people would answer back }
Penllyn llymru tena
A'i lond o drochion
{Penllyn (of) thin gruel, full of water
from washing socks}
"Llysenwau" (nicknames) Cymru, Cyfrol (volume) 3. 1892.
Tudalen (page) 137
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Mynachlog-nedd, Castell-nedd ac Aberafan (English name: "Neath Abbey")
Yr Abi Jacs a'r Mera brid
Do's dim o'u bäth nhw yn y byd.
I'r
gorllewin o'r ffin yma y mae gwyr Castell Nedd, neu fel yr adwaenid hwy ar
lafar gwlad "Gwyr y Mera." Ni fynnai gwyr y Fro gael un cyfathrach â
hwynt, oblegid
"Yr Abbey Jacs a'r Mera breed
'Dos dim o'u bäth nhw yn y byd."
Tafodieithoedd Morgannwg. T. Jones, Ysgol y Cyngor, Dunraven, Treherbert. The
Grail, Cyfrol 4, No. 13 (1911)
{To the west of this boundary are the people
of Castell-nedd ("Neath"), or as they are known col·loquially Gwyr y
Mera ("The people of the Mera"). The people of Bro Morgannwg
("the Vale of Glamorgan") wanted nothing to do with them}, because "The Jacs from Neath Abbey and the Mera
breed, there's nothing like them (literally: 'nothing of their sort') in the
world" }
Tafodieithoedd Morgannwg. {The Dialects of Morgannwg / Glamorgan} T.
Jones, Ysgol y Cyngor {
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Penllyn
Penllyn llymru tena
A'i lond o drochion
See Llanfachreth.
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Tre-lew,
Trelew tre lwyd, digon o faw a dim
bwyd
"Trelew
(a) grey town, plenty of mud and no food" (Y Cymro 28 10 2000)
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Welsh
Erfin, cawl erfin.
The bells of
Erfin, cawl erfin,
{turnips, soup (of) turnips / turnip soup}
the people being so poor that they had only turnips to eat.
The Gwentian Dialect. JOSEPH A. BRADNEY, Tal-y-coed. Archaeologia Cambrensis
Seventh Series. Volume 1. Year: ?? (?1895) tudalennau 145-146
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