Talk:Welsh/Pronunciation

Confusing critical semicolon where a colon is expected (Maybe!)
Under the headline "So when exactly is a vowel long? Wait, forget I asked...", near the end, one sees "This leaves the following options for when the vowel is long; in a word of one syllable; followed by two consonants the first of which is ll or s; either followed by no consonants, or followed by b, ch, d, dd, f, ff, g, s or th, or (if it happens to be i or u) followed by l, n or r."

Shouldn't that be "...the vowel is long:" ? (Kindly note the bold colon!) I had a rough time trying to parse the sentence when I first read it, although perhaps because I should have gone to sleep hours ago.

I'd suggest converting the specific cases to a bulleted list:

• In a word of one syllable

• Followed by two consonants, the first of which is ll or s

• Followed by no consonants

• Followed by b, ch, d, dd, f, ff, g, s or th

• (If the vowel is i or u) followed by l, n or r.

I do hope I understood the intent of the author; I surely would not want to attempt editing the text, itself!

Regards, User Nikevich (at Wikipedia), DHCP IP currently = 74.104.146.95 (talk) 09:52, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Specific Pronunciations
I liked very much (as an Australian) that you put besides different letters the IPA pronunciations, although there were some cases where it was lacking. eg. In the YW section, I had trouble interpreting what pronunciations you meant for yw; typically Australians pronounce the o in moan as /əʉ/, and RP and GA have differing pronunciations of /əʊ/ and /oʊ/, respectively. Could there possibly be some clarification on this point? Thanks. 60.240.63.244 (discuss) 06:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)