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Originally Posted by gary_580
The word Welsh is actually an Old English word meaning †œforeigner; slaveÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã‚ÂÂ
So just tell the slaves in the doctors surgeries to do as you tell them and to shut up  |
not old English
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The English names of the Welsh language (in Welsh, y Gymraeg) and the Welsh people (y Cymry) and Wales (Cymru) derive from a Germanic name for foreigners that crops up elsewhere in Europe in the same way, and which comes from a Latin name for a lost Celtic people, the Volcae.
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from
http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geraint.jones/about.welsh
some interesting stuff there - I didn't know there is a Welsh speaking community in Patagonia, for example
