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W I L D W A L E S
F o r several hundred years W ales has been 
joined to E n g lan d for purposes of adminis­
tration. I f , however, you look at a map of 
the part o f G reat Britain w hich is south of 
Scotland, you w ill find that it is always called 
E n g lan d and W ales. T h e people of W ales 
regard themselves as a separate nation.
W ales is an extrem ely beautiful mountain 
country. In many places the only liv in g things 
to be seen are flocks of sheep w ith the shep­
herds who look after them. T h e re are many 
fru itfu l valleys w ith grey stone houses, small 
farm s, and funny old-w orld villages w ith 
unpronounceable names.
In South W ales, however, the valleys are 
no longer green, but black and dirty w ith the 
smoke of thousands of factories and coal 
mines. On the coast of South W ales are the 
great harbours of Swansea and C ardiff, from
w hich the best coal in the w orld is exported.
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living =
Swansea
[swomi]
Cardiff
[ka:d if]


S E L E C T E D S H O R T S T O R I E S
In the years between the two world wars, 
other countries were able to sell coal at a 
much cheaper price than South Wales. The 
result was that there were many people 
without work in the mining valleys of South 
Wales, and that part of the country was, 
without doubt, the poorest in Great Britain.
The war, however, made a great differ­
ence, and many of the almost dead mining 
valleys came back to life again. In the fight 
against Germany much coal was required for 
the war factories of Great Britain. Through­
out the war South Wales was very busy, and 
is, indeed, still busy, for the motto of the 
British after the war is “ export or die” , and 
one of the most important things for produc­
ing articles for export is coal.
In Wales there are 2^2 million people, of 
whom nearly 1 million prefer to speak their 
own language. It is quite possible for an 
Englishman to meet a farmer in Wales, who 
in reply to his question about the way to the 
next village, will answer, “ D Y M S A E S N E G ”
- “ I do not speak Saxon” ! 80,000 people 
in this strange land neither speak nor under-
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W I L D WA L E S
stand English, and there are many who can , 
but “ w ill” not.
With the exception of such large towns as 
Swansea and Cardiff, and the districts of 
Wales that are close to England, children 
under the age of five are not generally able 
to speak English. They do not learn English 
until they commence school, when, of course, 
they must learn it.
Welsh is quite a rich language, consisting 
of more than 80,000 words. It looks very 
difficult to a foreigner and seems to consist 
mostly of consonants, among which many 
double Г s and w ’s. What would the reader 
do if he lived in the following village?
L L A N F A I R P W L L G W Y N G Y L L G O G E -
R Y C H W Y R N D R O B W L L L L A N T Y S I L -
IO G O G O G O C H .
This name means in reality: “ the church 
of St. M ary in the valley by the white hazel 
bush near the whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s red 
cave” . There is a railway station at this vil­
lage, but when the train stops and the guard 
gets out, it is hardly necessary to explain that 
he does not call out the whole of the name,
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St. Mary
[snt'mciri]


S E L E C T E D S H O R T S T O R I E S
sense =
meaning
appear = be 
made public
L L A N F A I R P. G. is sufficient for him. The 
British Railways (Western R egion), which 
are owned by the state, do not allow their 
personnel to speak Welsh, even if they are 
Welsh, but until shortly before 1 939 the 
railway personnel were allowed to speak 
which language they pleased.
Although English is the official language, 
Welsh is not dying out in any sense of the 
word. There are more people who speak 
Welsh and regard Welsh as their mother 
tongue at the present day than ever before in 
the history of the country. Newspapers and 
new books appear quite regularly in Welsh.
The Welsh would like to see the Welsh 
language recognized as the official language 
of the country. It is easy to see why the E n g ­
lish fight against this idea, for if Welsh was 
the official language, it would mean that all 
English functionaries and officials in Wales 
would have to give up their positions.
In this connection there is an amusing story 
told about an English tax collector who came 
to a house and asked a small boy who opened 
the door if his father was at home.
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W I L D WA L E S
“ No, he is at work at R H O S A N E R C H -
R U G O G ,” answered the boy.
“ Well, perhaps your mother is at home?” 
asked the tax collector.
“ No, she has gone to L L A N F A I R M A -
T H A F A R N E I T H A F . I am quite alone at 
home. M y sister is away, too. She is at
L L A N F A I R P W L L G W Y N G Y L L G O G E -
R Y C H W Y R N D R O B W L L L L A N T Y S I L -
IO G O G O G O C H .”
After which the tax collector had nothing 
more to say!
Welshmen have played a very important 

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