William last posted here two months ago (exactly two months ago yesterday, as it happens) and I replied to that post the very same evening. That was on a Tuesday, and I can see that he visited again on the following Saturday morning but he didn’t post a response.

Update: I see that William visited here at the beginning of this month, but once again he didn’t make a post.

The only forum member whom I know for certain to be a Welsh speaker has never actually made any posts here!

dyffryn is a broad flat valley

I’ve just listened to the word dyffryn on Google Translate. It sounded more like ‘duff-RIN’ than the ‘DUFF-run’ that I expected (i.e. not only a different stress pattern, but also ‘rin’ rather than ‘run’ for the second syllable).

...and Cymru is pronounced as "kumri", not, as I've heard Englishmen say "kimru"!

Anywhere in the UK you’d have to avoid broadcast political news coverage like the proverbial plague in order not to have heard that ‘Plaid Cymru’ (the Welsh nationalist party that was founded 100 years ago) is pronounced ‘plied kumri’, not ‘played kimru’ or ‘plad kimru’.

On a related note, I’m not sure when or why the Scottish Nationalist Party renamed themselves as the Scottish National Party.

My slight knowledge of Welsh suggests that both "y" and "w" are used as vowels in that language.

My slight knowledge of Welsh told me that “cwm” is a valley, where the “w” sounds like a short version of the “oo” in “room”. Looking it up on the Interwebs, I’ve discovered that cwm is a deep narrow valley whilst dyffryn is a broad flat valley.

Both state that “myrrh” contains no vowels, which is clearly nonsense

Quite so! "Y" is commonly used as a vowel, not only in "rhyme" and "Egypt" but at the end of most (probably) adverbs, such as those used by both of us in this post! However, it is, I believe, the only letter used as both a vowel and a consonant in English. My slight knowledge of Welsh suggests that both "y" and "w" are used as vowels in that language.

clearly nonsense

The original article on kotaku.com also stated that myrrh was one of the things given to Jesus when he died, when in fact it was one of the gifts — along with gold and frankincense — that were given to him by the Magi (the “three kings of Orient”) shortly after he was born.

Today's NYT Wordle seems to have upset a lot of people! https://avast.1news.io/news/106278dad22 … medium=ntp

The “Detailed Summary” is followed by a link to the original article. Both state that “myrrh” contains no vowels, which is clearly nonsense since (as in so many English words) the “y” functions as a vowel here. Anyone who knows anything about ancient mariners should be able to tell you that “rhyme” has just as many vowels as “rime” does.

My first guess had no correct letters. My second guess was ROUST, which not only told me there was at least one “r” elsewhere in the word but also that there was no “o” and no “t”, so when I overlooked that for my fourth guess WordleBot rewarded me with a skill score of 0. I solved the puzzle on my next turn.

“There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. (XXXXX is a valid guess, but it’s unlikely to be a solution based on what I’ve learned from playing Wordle.) But there’s still only one solution remaining. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn.”

My first guess today didn’t include any correct letters, and the XXXXX above had the same last letter as that first guess, so although it was a valid word it wasn’t a valid guess for that stage of the game.