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   From: dgg@miniac.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:46:42 GMT, "ARWadsworth"   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >> I once knew a cat that spoke Welsh, and wouldn't respond to English.   
   >>   
   >> Owain   
   >   
   >My ex wife is from Slovakia and on one trip to Slovakia she spoke to her   
   >Mum's dog in English and wondered why it would not sit. She had no idea what   
   >she had done.   
   >   
   >I also know a Welshman that speaks English perfectly well and will not   
   >respond to English.   
      
   I used to do servicing work at the Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station.   
      
   My English colleagues used to say that the barmaids at the local pub   
   always switched to talking in Welsh as soon as they entered. I noticed   
   that as well.   
      
   However, I had worked night shifts at a TV station when OU programmes   
   teaching the Welsh Language went out. It soon became clear to me that   
   they were discussing the fact that "someone" was pinching the toilet   
   rolls out of the "ladies", and it wasn't the Saesnegs {sassonachs}   
   that were the prime suspects, not the men at any rate.   
      
   DG   
      
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