[Wikipedia-l] What variant to use for Irish, Scottish and Welsh localities?

Sam Korn smoddy at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 19:54:42 UTC 2006


On 3/11/06, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> How about for towns with two names which are similar, but spelt
> differently:
>
> e.g. Cwmbrân (Welsh) and Cwmbran (English) in Wales.
>
> (In case that 'a' didn't come out correct it is an a-circumflex)

Ironically, I have seen the town written with the Welsh spelling in
English and (once or twice) with the English spelling in Welsh.

I'm not quite sure what the moral of this story is.

--
Sam



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