It was so successful that they had to use the original name in the headline so people knew what the story was about
>Gwynedd councillor John Pughe Roberts had earlier put forward a motion asking the park to stop using Snowdon and Snowdonia, claiming many were “complaining that people are changing house names, rock names, renaming the mountains”.
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>Citing the use of Welsh names “aligned with the authority’s commitment to promoting the Welsh language” and of “heritage preservation”, officers also reported the move represented a “unique selling point” which “sets it apart from other UK national parks”.
I found this bit of the article interesting, because ‘Snowdon’ isn’t equivalent to a new English name being slapped on an old Welsh house without regard for its history.
‘Snowdon’ is Old English, and means ‘Snow Hill’. Its first recorded use dates to about 1090, so it’s an historic name in itself. The first recorded use of *Yr Wyddfa* dates from two centuries later, surprisingly, although it or another Welsh name was surely used long before the 1200s.
The national park authority can call the mountain whatever it likes, of course, but I hope it’s aware that some English names are also part of Eryri’s heritage.
So you’re posting this for a third time now? Stop deleting it when people disagree with you just so you can post it again to push your agenda
For anyone out the loop they keep posting this and on the last two basically saying the English names are more important than Welsh then delete it when people disagree
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It was so successful that they had to use the original name in the headline so people knew what the story was about
>Gwynedd councillor John Pughe Roberts had earlier put forward a motion asking the park to stop using Snowdon and Snowdonia, claiming many were “complaining that people are changing house names, rock names, renaming the mountains”.
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>Citing the use of Welsh names “aligned with the authority’s commitment to promoting the Welsh language” and of “heritage preservation”, officers also reported the move represented a “unique selling point” which “sets it apart from other UK national parks”.
I found this bit of the article interesting, because ‘Snowdon’ isn’t equivalent to a new English name being slapped on an old Welsh house without regard for its history.
‘Snowdon’ is Old English, and means ‘Snow Hill’. Its first recorded use dates to about 1090, so it’s an historic name in itself. The first recorded use of *Yr Wyddfa* dates from two centuries later, surprisingly, although it or another Welsh name was surely used long before the 1200s.
The national park authority can call the mountain whatever it likes, of course, but I hope it’s aware that some English names are also part of Eryri’s heritage.
So you’re posting this for a third time now? Stop deleting it when people disagree with you just so you can post it again to push your agenda
For anyone out the loop they keep posting this and on the last two basically saying the English names are more important than Welsh then delete it when people disagree
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