White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in

Eric Nielsen ericbarnak at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 20 00:29:14 UTC 2012


The Welsh ran out of dry land and could go no further. Their cousins made a
getaway to Armorica.
But all still a part of our great language.

Eric

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:

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> I've always thought the Welsh is, to a unilingual, as far away from
> English as it is possible to get and still use the Roman Alphabet.  It
> is a miracle that it lives on the same island,
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