Brecon Beacons now is not

Started by Heedless Horseman, 17 April 2023, 09:33:48 AM

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Heedless Horseman

17 April 2023, 09:33:48 AM
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
(40 Yrs ago. I should have been an Angry Young Man... but wasn't.
Now... I am an Old B******! )  ;)

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

17 April 2023, 09:38:54 AM #1
Think the military will ignore it. If given a stupid order salute say sir and carry on doing what you were doing before.
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steve_holmes_11

17 April 2023, 10:11:38 AM #2
Barely an inconvenience compared to the tongue twisters found in historic battle honours.

Gwydion

17 April 2023, 10:17:50 AM #3
Doesn't take much to bewilder a squaddie.

Might make an interesting test on Selection though- now pronounce Bannau Brycheiniog :D

Raider4

17 April 2023, 10:57:39 AM #4
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?

howayman

17 April 2023, 11:04:53 AM #5
And i am sure we will.

Gwydion

17 April 2023, 11:13:09 AM #6
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.

flamingpig0

17 April 2023, 09:08:03 PM #7
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Last Hussar

17 April 2023, 09:15:32 PM #8
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 have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Gwydion

17 April 2023, 10:19:58 PM #9
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.

steve_holmes_11

17 April 2023, 11:18:23 PM #10
The unspoken assumption is that it's the English army.

Last Hussar

18 April 2023, 04:38:24 PM #11
I've never been in the army.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Ben Waterhouse

19 April 2023, 12:53:41 PM #12
I have and it's very tribal... Incidentally yesterday was St. King Brychan of Brycheiniog's day in the Orthodox Church...
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flamingpig0

19 April 2023, 02:59:28 PM #13
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
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John Cook

19 April 2023, 04:22:07 PM #14
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.
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