BS: Welsh Scrabble

Subject: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:07 AM

Good tidings for all Welsh (or Welch, if fusiliers) scrabble players who are fed up with the English Qs and Zs. There is a Welsh version available. Saw it in a German news edition.

By the way - can anybody tell me what a Hydref is?

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:13 AM

It must have loads of "L" tiles

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:19 AM

Not only that, it also has a lot of LL tiles, and RH and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Paul Burke
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:25 AM

According to the online Welsh dictionary
it's October, and therefore not allowed in Scrabble.

The REAL purpose of Scrabble is to make anagrams. DID YOU KNOW that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is fart gas glow on a mud maze?

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:51 AM

can you cheat and use the Welsh Ll for two Ls in English?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Paul Burke
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 07:50 AM

There aren't two Ls in English.
And there's no F in tea, I've got to nip out to the shop.

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: BanjoRay
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:36 AM

'Hydref' also means 'autumn' and is therefore allowed.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:46 AM

oh, goody! Next, I suppose we'll have Czech scrabble and Hawaiian scrabble....and some practical joker will mix up the tiles, causing an International Incident as judges try to pronounce "llanfairaloheoczntsk"

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: sian, west wales
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 03:54 PM

Yeh, I just saw it in a shop in Caernarfon. Didn't have time to look at it, but will have to have all the following on individual tiles: a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, l, ll, m, n, o, p, ph, r, rh,s, t, th, u, w and y. Be interesting to know how many of some of these you get, and how the scoring is weighted! I guess it leaves some freedom with accented vowells.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: GUEST,Nigel Parsons
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 04:10 PM

Siân:
At first glance you've missed 'ngh', and there may be others

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: SussexCarole
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 07:32 PM

Surely the tiles should be called slates!

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:54 AM

ng is a letter and h is, but ngh is a mutation, combination of the two letters. Th one I'd be hard-pressed to use is the ph (often replaced with the other letter ff now) so I hope it would be worth about a zillion points. There was, at one point, an attempt made to have people use specific new single 'digit' characters for the double ones (the 'dd' looked rather like an eighth note in music) but it never caught on.

I like 'slates'!

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Dead Horse
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:07 AM

The bloody scrabble board would have to be waterproof the way I speak it!

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Mr Happy
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:02 AM

'Th one I'd be hard-pressed to use is the ph (often replaced with the other letter ff now)'


'ph' in English pronounced as 'f', ok phor elephants & phones,

but ambiguous in words like

'upholstery' - 'uffolstery'?? or is this Welsh?

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:27 PM

Welsh Scrabble?
Is that something you eat?

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:37 PM

Great game and country if you are dyxlexic (spelling) Joke from Cannon and Ball

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Anne Lister
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:53 PM

I will work on a recipe for Welsh Scrabble ...sounds as if it should contain cheese, eggs and leeks as a starting point.
But I will point out to those poking fun that at least we tend to pronounce all of our letters and in a relatively logical manner (with some exceptions). They may be different rules, but they are rules!

Anne in Pontypool

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 01:46 PM

Well I hear that every time you manage to put the word Sheep on the board you get an extra 50 points :-)

Only joking youn Welsh people. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Schantieman
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 02:34 PM

Isn't how you get up Crib Goch?


Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 08:22 AM

"There aren't two Ls in English."

Well, I'll pull on my wellingtons, then...

On 'L' is enough for most Christians....

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:31 PM

'Stroupe:
I think the comment:"There aren't two Ls in English."
meant "It's not spelt 'Engllish'"

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 05:19 AM

You only get these daigraphs in Welsh.

Subject: RE: BS: Welsh Scrabble
From: David C. Carter
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 05:43 AM

Can we use Cyrillic?