Brecon Beacons has now 'Officially' changed to Welsh name.
Now, some of you live in Wales, may speak and pronounce Welsh language and place names... ok... you live there.
But imagine bewhildered squaddies! :o ;D
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65274952
Think the military will ignore it. If given a stupid order salute say sir and carry on doing what you were doing before.
Barely an inconvenience compared to the tongue twisters found in historic battle honours.
Doesn't take much to bewilder a squaddie.
Might make an interesting test on Selection though- now pronounce Bannau Brycheiniog :D
So it's now called Bannau Brycheiniog in Welsh.
The English can still carry on using the English name, rather like the way they use Germany and Munich, rather than Deutschland and München, can't they?
And i am sure we will.
It's a complete non story.
It has always been Bannau Brycheiniog in Welsh and now a Park in Wales is officially using the Welsh name.
The Shock! The Horror!
Only the local MP and a few jaded news editors want to make something of it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brecon-beacons-name-change-boris-johnson-b2321272.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brecon-beacons-name-change-boris-johnson-b2321272.html)
Personally I think you should always what the natives call a place; Wein, Goteborg, etc. After all you call a person Jaques, not John, and it's now Beijing, not Peking.
I love the 'renaming after a sex mad Welshman' bit.
Did it ever occur to the monoglot thicko who wrote that piece that Brecon is just the anglicised version of Brychan?
It's always been named after the sex mad half Irish immigrant.
Ho hum.
The unspoken assumption is that it's the English army.
I've never been in the army.
I have and it's very tribal... Incidentally yesterday was St. King Brychan of Brycheiniog's day in the Orthodox Church...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 April 2023, 04:38:24 PMI've never been in the army.
I have been a little bit dubious of it since I discovered it tried to kill my father. I wouldn't mind so much but he was in the RAF at the time.
Badly marked live fire exercise- apparently
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 17 April 2023, 11:18:23 PMThe unspoken assumption is that it's the English army.
To anybody who has been in the British Army it will always be simply 'Brecon'. Not a place you ever go to willingly, to be frank.
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 19 April 2023, 02:59:28 PMI have been a little bit dubious of it since I discovered it tried to kill my father. I wouldn't mind so much but he was in the RAF at the time.
Badly marked live fire exercise- apparently
In the RAF you say. Almost certainly deliberate.
Certainly seems to be on the SAS top 10 places to visit in the UK list :)
They do their selection courses there don't they?
Quote from: pierre the shy on 20 April 2023, 03:47:13 AMCertainly seems to be on the SAS top 10 places to visit in the UK list :)
They do their selection courses there don't they?
Well, yes, but it it is used by the infantry generally.
Quote from: John Cook on 19 April 2023, 04:27:05 PMIn the RAF you say. Almost certainly deliberate.
That was my opinion but I decided not to share it with him