{"id":11810,"date":"2015-10-31T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2015-10-31T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:44:21","slug":"wysinnwyg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"Wysinnwyg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I listened to a programme on BBC Radio 4 with an unusual title – Wysinnwyg<\/strong><\/a>. When I first saw the title of immediately thought it was a Welsh word, although not one I’d come across before, and I tried to work out what it might mean. I couldn’t find it in any Welsh dictionary, so assumed it was a made-up word. After listening to the programme I realised it was a variation on wysiwyg<\/strong> (what you see is what you get), which also looks Welsh, and means “what you see is not necessarily what you get”.<\/p>\n

There aren’t very many Welsh words that start with w, in fact, and many of them are loanwords from English. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n

– waldio [\u02c8\u028aald\u026a\u0254] = to beat, to thrash
\n– wb [\u028ab] \/ wbwb [\u02c8\u028ab\u028ab] = wi! oh! alas!
\n– wedi[\u02c8\u028a\u025bd\u026a] = after
\n– wedyn [\u02c8\u028a\u025bd\u0268n] = afterwards
\n– weithiau [\u02c8\u028a\u025b\u026a\u03b8\u026aa\u0268] = sometimes
\n– wele [\u02c8\u028a\u025bl\u025b] = behold!
\n– wfft [\u028aft] = fie! for shame!
\n– wfftian [\u02c8\u028aft\u026aan] = to flout
\n– wit-wat [\u02c8\u028a\u026at\u028aat] = fickle
\n– wtio [\u02c8\u028at\u026a\u0254] = to boo
\n– wrth [\u028ar\u03b8] = by, with, to, compared with, because
\n– wy [\u028a\u0268] = egg
\n– wyneb [\u02c8\u028a\u0268n\u025bb] = face, surface
\n– wyth [\u028a\u0268\u03b8] = eight
\n– wythnos [\u02c8\u028a\u0268\u03b8n\u0254s] = week (eight-night)<\/p>\n

Do you ever see acronyms or made-up words and think they are from a particular language? Or see words in one language and think they’re really from another language?<\/p>\n

Whenever I see words with w’s and y’s and double l’s I think of Welsh. So Amarillo looks like a Welsh place name to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I listened to a programme on BBC Radio 4 with an unusual title – Wysinnwyg. When I first saw the title of immediately thought it was a Welsh word, although not one I’d come across before, and I tried to work out what it might mean. I couldn’t find it in any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}