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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh letter pronunciation: a thread 👉

C
• always the K sound as in cat or Kill
• never S as in city

💬 Conwy
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Ch
• always as the Ch in the Scottish loch
• never as in lock or church

💬 Rhos-goch
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Dd
• always sounds like the Th in breathe or Then

💬 Rhuddlan

F
• always the V sound as in Venice

💬 Felindref
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Ff
• has the same sound as Ph, and the English off
• never the V sound

💬 Ffestiniog
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G
• always hard as in Get
• never soft as in Gentle

💬 Garn

Ll
• a voiceless L. Produce an L, but breathe out both sides of the tongue

💬 Llanelli
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Ng
• has the sound of Ng in singing
• In a few exceptions, Ng is pronounced ng + g as in the English finger
• In others, n and g are separate sounds (Llangollen)

💬 Bangor
💬 Llong

R
• trilled like a strong Scottish R, or as in Spanish and Italian

💬 Rachub
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S
• same as the ss in moss, or the S in Sit
• never the z sound as in nose

💬 Dowlais
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Th
• has the same sound as the Th in Thin
• never as the Th in The

💬 Bethesda

Thanks to @OrdnanceSurvey for the bulk of this detail.
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Ff
• like the ough in rough
• never like the ough in plough
• or the ough in thorough
• or the ough in ought
• or the ough in through

💬 Fflipinec

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W
• short, as the oo in took
• long, as the oo in moo
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Y
• 2 sounds:
‣ In monosyllables, and in the final syllable of a word, it has the same sound as the i in Brinton
‣ In other positions, it has the same sound as the u and the e in under

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