And for all eternity news articles will still use “Snowdon” so people actually know wtf they are talking about.
As it should be, it’s in Cymru so should be called by it’s Cymraeg name, anyone against that is simply against Cymru and our culture.
Welsh place names are important. They often tell a story and if they are no longer used, the stories will be forgotten.
Wyddfa is a fantastic example. I’d urge you to look up the story of Rhita Gawr connected to Y Wyddfa.
Well, its a happen I guess, I’ll probably still call it Snowden, I don’t get confused by mountains much, so unlike ynys Mon I won’t get much use out of the name change (if your wondering, I’ve always gotten man, white and Anglesey confused, so now the one that looks like the head of wales is ynys Mon)
So it’s just the local authority that’s decided they will only call it that? I hope they still have signage in both languages else lots of people are going to get lost
How is it pronounced? Is it something like, Ear Oofa?
English speaking people will carry on calling it Snowdon. Fact. No matter how much that annoys people, just like Turkey says it`s changed it`s name, people gonna call places the same thing they`ve called them all their lives, expecting anything else is setting yourself up for disappointment.
Nobody is going to be able to pronounce its so all that’s going to happen is locals will get shirty when tourists refer to it as snowdon.
I always thought Snowdon was a boring name tbh
Yr Wyddfa sounds a lot more epic
In a country where many are rubbish at being multilingual, the main area where this is not the case mostly learns a second language to be able to speak to fewer people rather than more…
Great stuff. I’m Welsh and I’m happy we’re supporting Welsh placenames, and the Welsh language in general. Hopefully the census results, once they’re published in full, will show that the language is not just alive and well, but growing.
Honestly I hate this development we have recently of forcing English words to be replaced with a foreign word for it just because it’s from that place.
Look calling in Yr Wyddfa in Welsh is fine, the Welsh get to choose. That can be on all the signs I get it. But English is a different language and they can choose to call it something else.
They are not going to call Wales, Cymru because they have an English word already to refer to Wales. That’s how language works, they named something in their language.
Stop forcing words into the English language.
Signed a Welsh guy.
Off topic, but I’m an English guy with absolutely no Welsh blood and I’ve been wanting to learn Welsh for a while.
I would like to learn another language and I thought why not another language of the UK.
Do any Welsh speakers know of any good resources? Paid or otherwise.
I’m a Welsh speaker and never really been personally bothered about which name people use, as long as they respect the area.
But the fact that locals have decided they want to use the Welsh name is good enough for me and I’ll always say ‘Yr Wyddfa’ and ‘Eryri’ now.
Went up Snowdon as a kid. I remember the Crib Goch part vividly. We are fine with calling parts of the mountain by their Welsh name so why not the whole thing 🤔
I’m Welsh. Proud to be Welsh.
100% it’s Snowdon, and will always be referred to as Snowdon. This sounds like a North Walian gripe.
There’s nothing wrong with English speakers wanting to keep calling it Snowdon.
That does mean we should also be tolerated when asking for directions to Manceinion or Rhydychen when visiting, though.
It makes sense. No one has much of a problem with the SAS training on a mountain called Pen y Fan – or that most of the other mountains in Cymru/Wales are named in Welsh.
I wouldn’t be surprised that the people that are complaining about how dare they change the name (they haven’t, no one is going to be offended if you use Snowdon) and that the pronunciation is too hard are probability the same ones that complain about “Foreign muck” when on holidays
They are free to do so but everyone will continue to call it Snowdon, (if only because it’s alot easier to say). It’s like Pluto being a planet, .N.A.S.A.. can bellyache about technicalities as much as it likes it’s still a planet.
What’s wrong with people on here. It’s official name may have changed, but you can continue to call it whatever the fuck you want
This is great. Wales deserves to have more pride in its national identity and shouldn’t be afraid making these decisions.
It has been called Snowdon longer than Yr Wyddfa. This is a case of Anglophobia, considering they don’t seem to want to recognise that English (or precursor) people actually have lived there for a millennium.
Since it only took five thousand signatures to rename it one way, I’ve started a petition to rename it back – https://chng.it/ZdKGyWvQYT
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And for all eternity news articles will still use “Snowdon” so people actually know wtf they are talking about.
As it should be, it’s in Cymru so should be called by it’s Cymraeg name, anyone against that is simply against Cymru and our culture.
Welsh place names are important. They often tell a story and if they are no longer used, the stories will be forgotten.
Wyddfa is a fantastic example. I’d urge you to look up the story of Rhita Gawr connected to Y Wyddfa.
Well, its a happen I guess, I’ll probably still call it Snowden, I don’t get confused by mountains much, so unlike ynys Mon I won’t get much use out of the name change (if your wondering, I’ve always gotten man, white and Anglesey confused, so now the one that looks like the head of wales is ynys Mon)
So it’s just the local authority that’s decided they will only call it that? I hope they still have signage in both languages else lots of people are going to get lost
How is it pronounced? Is it something like, Ear Oofa?
English speaking people will carry on calling it Snowdon. Fact. No matter how much that annoys people, just like Turkey says it`s changed it`s name, people gonna call places the same thing they`ve called them all their lives, expecting anything else is setting yourself up for disappointment.
[Snowdon (/ˈsnoʊdən/; Welsh:
Yr Wyddfa, pronounced [ər ˈʊɨ̯ðva])](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Wyddfa.ogg)
Nobody is going to be able to pronounce its so all that’s going to happen is locals will get shirty when tourists refer to it as snowdon.
I always thought Snowdon was a boring name tbh
Yr Wyddfa sounds a lot more epic
In a country where many are rubbish at being multilingual, the main area where this is not the case mostly learns a second language to be able to speak to fewer people rather than more…
Great stuff. I’m Welsh and I’m happy we’re supporting Welsh placenames, and the Welsh language in general. Hopefully the census results, once they’re published in full, will show that the language is not just alive and well, but growing.
Honestly I hate this development we have recently of forcing English words to be replaced with a foreign word for it just because it’s from that place.
Look calling in Yr Wyddfa in Welsh is fine, the Welsh get to choose. That can be on all the signs I get it. But English is a different language and they can choose to call it something else.
They are not going to call Wales, Cymru because they have an English word already to refer to Wales. That’s how language works, they named something in their language.
Stop forcing words into the English language.
Signed a Welsh guy.
Off topic, but I’m an English guy with absolutely no Welsh blood and I’ve been wanting to learn Welsh for a while.
I would like to learn another language and I thought why not another language of the UK.
Do any Welsh speakers know of any good resources? Paid or otherwise.
I’m a Welsh speaker and never really been personally bothered about which name people use, as long as they respect the area.
But the fact that locals have decided they want to use the Welsh name is good enough for me and I’ll always say ‘Yr Wyddfa’ and ‘Eryri’ now.
Went up Snowdon as a kid. I remember the Crib Goch part vividly. We are fine with calling parts of the mountain by their Welsh name so why not the whole thing 🤔
I’m Welsh. Proud to be Welsh.
100% it’s Snowdon, and will always be referred to as Snowdon. This sounds like a North Walian gripe.
There’s nothing wrong with English speakers wanting to keep calling it Snowdon.
That does mean we should also be tolerated when asking for directions to Manceinion or Rhydychen when visiting, though.
It makes sense. No one has much of a problem with the SAS training on a mountain called Pen y Fan – or that most of the other mountains in Cymru/Wales are named in Welsh.
I wouldn’t be surprised that the people that are complaining about how dare they change the name (they haven’t, no one is going to be offended if you use Snowdon) and that the pronunciation is too hard are probability the same ones that complain about “Foreign muck” when on holidays
They are free to do so but everyone will continue to call it Snowdon, (if only because it’s alot easier to say). It’s like Pluto being a planet, .N.A.S.A.. can bellyache about technicalities as much as it likes it’s still a planet.
What’s wrong with people on here. It’s official name may have changed, but you can continue to call it whatever the fuck you want
This is great. Wales deserves to have more pride in its national identity and shouldn’t be afraid making these decisions.
It has been called Snowdon longer than Yr Wyddfa. This is a case of Anglophobia, considering they don’t seem to want to recognise that English (or precursor) people actually have lived there for a millennium.
Since it only took five thousand signatures to rename it one way, I’ve started a petition to rename it back – https://chng.it/ZdKGyWvQYT