Definitions
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- proper noun The
dialect of theEnglish language as spoken inWales .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He named this dialectical oddity "Wenglish" and recorded it as it is spoken, mainly in the valleys and townships of South Wales that's OLD South Wales for our antipodean visitors.
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Awww, and here I was hoping that "Wenglish" stood for a Wendish/English pidgin.
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(For those unfamiliar, there was some Welsh and Wenglish in this paragraph for sarcasm and effect.)
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I believe this hybrid form of speech is called Wenglish.
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'Frages' is Wenglish for 'for ages' and 'issages' is the Wenglish equivalent of 'this ages': "I haven't seen you frages.", or "I haven't been to the pictures 'issages."
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Thanks for this link: I'm from that neck of the woods & grew up speaking a kind of watered-down Wenglish.
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My Odyssean friend who often goes by the sobriquet "dung beattle" when commenting here has sent me a link to a charming site called Talk Tidy: The Online Home of Wenglish, based on two books by John Edwards:John Edwards has made his lifetime study, the peculiarities of the Welsh/English dialect.
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However, I wouldn't say all of it is characteristically Wenglish.
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It’s no different to the stereotype of Welsh people being miners, carrying leeks and daffodils around all day, being able to sing and coming out with idiotic Wenglish phrases such as ‘Whose coat is that jacket.
me no rike remonade - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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