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To: Rightfootforward
Why do academics ignore Welsh records?

guess they didn't want to be known as a welsher...

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/welsher
8 posted on 08/15/2006 8:14:59 AM PDT by Proverbs 3-5
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To: Proverbs 3-5

Actually, "Welsh" comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning
"foreigner".

Ironic since the Welsh of the psot-Roman period were the original inhabitants of Britain.


16 posted on 08/15/2006 8:36:29 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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