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To: Myrddin; Red Badger

How do spell-check the Welsh on-line spell check dictionary?


22 posted on 09/12/2022 3:17:12 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Welsh is easy to spell check.

When it looks wrong, it’s correct.


23 posted on 09/12/2022 3:31:21 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
I have Y Geiriadur Mawr == the big dictionary. In addition, some learner's dictionaries, phrase books, idioms. Google translate does a reasonable job of translation. When learning the language, you need to learn southern, mid-valley and northern dialects because people are much more mobile today. Ordinarily, a dialect arises from geographic isolation. TV, radio, planes, trains and autos have broken the lock of isolation on Welsh dialects. Ireland has almost 200 dialects of Irish Gaelic.

The song Tan y Llyn in a video has the Welsh and English together. The music is performed in Welsh. Tan yn Llyn

Spell check can be challenging because Welsh has a variety of mutations: contact, nasal, aspirant that make words flow together better. Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic have similar rules with broad/slender consonants/vowels and lenition to make spoken language flow better.

29 posted on 09/12/2022 6:56:35 PM PDT by Myrddin
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