Cambrophone

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adjective

Welsh-speaking.

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adjectiveCambrophone (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWelsh-speaking.

    He was born in the Cambrophone border city of Shrewsbury and had at least one Welsh grandparent.

    2014 April, Kassandra Leighann Conley, “[Olion Cewri: Galfridian History and Early Modern Welsh Identity] English Neo-Classical Myths of Albion”, in Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600, dissertation presented to The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, page 134
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    But, symbolically, Welsh language media production looks highly suitable for a Cambrophone location. Moreover, in view of the success of the media cluster in Cambrophone Caernarfon, the WDA comes under pressure from the west Wales lobby to stimulate a similar media industry presence around Carmarthen.

    2006, Phil Cooke, “Developing and Investing in the Media”, in Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls, Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, →ISBN, page 34

    Compare the most distinctive feature of English renderings of the English of Welsh speakers. The substitution of voiceless plosives for voiced ones in the speech of characters from Fluellen in William Shakespeare’s The Life of Henry the Fift (1599; Q 1600, F 1623), most apparent in Act II of the F, and Sir Hugh Evans in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597–98?; Q 1602, F 1623), here and there in the F, to Morgan in Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), chapter 25 (“a petter penny” for a petter penny [Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies (London, 1623), D2r]; “Got pless my soul!” [The Adventures of Roderick Random, ed. Paul-Gabriel Boucé (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 146]), manifests how ears attuned to the relatively weakly aspirated voiced plosives of native English interpret the corresponding sounds in cambrophone English speakers: the aspiration that accompanies voiced plosives in Welsh English is almost as strong as that accompanying voiceless plosives in non-Welsh varieties of British English.

    2007 winter, Jonathan Pritchard, “Swift’s Irish Rhymes”, in Studies in Philology, volume 104, number 1, University of North Carolina Press, section II, page 138

    However, by far the most Englishes in Wales are ‘contact varieties’ arising from the interplay of Welsh and English structural influences, reflecting the historical fact that such Englishes exist as the result of the language shift of cambrophone speakers and co-exist to a greater or lesser extent in actual geolinguistic space with Welsh itself.

    2011, Allan James, “English(es) in post-devolution Wales: The sociolinguistic reconstruction of late modern Valleys Voice”, in Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, volume 36, number 1, →ISSN, section 2 (English(es) in Wales: English(es) and Welsh), subsection 2 (Heterogeneity), page 49

    The Welsh gentleman was stereotyped in this discourse as a Tory, Anglophone, Anglican, absentee landowner and contrasted explicitly with the radical, nonconformist, Cambrophone, plebeian gwerin (folk) who were the true bearers of the national spirit.

    2012, Jacqueline Eales, Andrew Hopper, editors, The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales, Hatfield, Herts: University of Hertfordshire Press, →ISBN

    The linguistic disintegration of the coalfield was not inevitable: had there been a different political response, it could have remained Cambrophone.

    2017, Simon Brooks, “An Unexpected Failure”, in Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 2–3

    Synonyms: Cymrophone

nounCambrophone (plural Cambrophones)

plural Cambrophones

  1. A person who speaks Welsh.

    Synonyms: Cymrophone

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWelsh-speaking.

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nounA person who speaks Welsh.

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