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BBC History Team Solves Riddle Of Llywelyn
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-31-2006 | Ben Fenton

Posted on 02/05/2006 3:21:23 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 02/05/2006 3:21:27 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 02/05/2006 3:22:01 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
BBC history team solves riddle of Llywelyn

Some linguist figured out how to pronounce it?

3 posted on 02/05/2006 3:23:09 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: blam

Boy, I'm glad that's been settled. It's been worrying me these last 800 years.


4 posted on 02/05/2006 3:33:08 PM PST by T'wit (As they say: If you like the law, sausage or Bill Clinton, don't watch them being made.)
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To: blam

Investigations showed that the chicken farm, which has a tower attached to it tentatively

Tentatively?


5 posted on 02/05/2006 3:46:02 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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"Tentatively?"

It's about to fall down?

6 posted on 02/05/2006 3:52:59 PM PST by blam
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To: Gordongekko909
" Some linguist figured out how to pronounce it?"

roughly, "Lew-ellen"

7 posted on 02/05/2006 4:00:37 PM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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To: Mark Felton

All that, and they didn't provide a picture or a map.


8 posted on 02/05/2006 4:18:06 PM PST by passionfruit ("...I think the left wing is turning into a cult... If you disagree you're a traitor")
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To: Mark Felton

You can't figure out the Welsh, I have Welsh roots (G,GR Father was from "AMLCH" , Northern Wales. Try doing some genealogy research in Wales..


9 posted on 02/05/2006 4:25:39 PM PST by ThomasPaine2000 (Peace without freedom is tyranny.)
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To: Myrddin

LLYWELYN Ping!


10 posted on 02/05/2006 4:58:37 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: Domestic Church
Pen y Bryn aka "end of the hill". Good to see the historians at work finding physical evidence to support their writing. Diolch yn fawr!
11 posted on 02/05/2006 5:08:01 PM PST by Myrddin
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Thanks Blam.

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12 posted on 02/05/2006 5:50:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Islam is medieval fascism, and the Koran is a medieval Mein Kampf.)
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Thanks Blam.

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13 posted on 02/05/2006 5:50:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Islam is medieval fascism, and the Koran is a medieval Mein Kampf.)
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Huh. Wonder what happened there? I only clicked it once...


14 posted on 02/05/2006 5:53:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Islam is medieval fascism, and the Koran is a medieval Mein Kampf.)
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To: blam

"I told him that he ought to acknowledge that Edward I's son was not the first Prince of Wales and that he is the 22nd, not the 21st person to hold that title."


I have a visual of Nelson, from the Simpsons, pointing at PRince Charles, going, "Ha-Ha!!"


15 posted on 02/05/2006 6:05:47 PM PST by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
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To: Gordongekko909
I think it is lou-ell'in.

I recognize it from Cadfael, the series about a Benedictine monk who solves murders in, what, 12th-century England?

16 posted on 02/05/2006 6:08:08 PM PST by TheGeezer
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To: Mark Felton
roughly, "Lew-ellen"

You forgot the throat-clearing at the start of the word.


17 posted on 02/05/2006 7:56:11 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: TheGeezer

That was a great series.


18 posted on 02/05/2006 8:29:56 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: Gordongekko909

like thlew-ellen with the first syllable like you are spitting.


19 posted on 02/05/2006 9:03:15 PM PST by Dave Elias
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To: blam

Interesting find.


20 posted on 02/05/2006 9:57:16 PM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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