Call it national chauvinism(沙文主义) if you like, but people in England call Britain England out of habit rather than conscious sense of superiority, though it annoys the Welsh and especially the Scots who are proud of their separate national tradition.【1】The British Isles is made up of_...
1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma- that is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages (Greek mamme "mother, grandmother," Latin mamma, Persian mama, Russian and Lithuanian mama "mother," German Muhme "mother's sister," French maman, Welsh mam "mother")...
Arthur Lewis Wells (1923-2019) was born in Erith, Kent to Stan & Peg, fairly modest, upwardly mobile sort of people, living on the edge of the sprawling metropolis of London. Arthur was named after my grandad’s only brother, killed in the First War in 1915 at the age of 19. In t...
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer (refer to poetry in the language, it was poetry written in Wales) who wrote majority of his work in English. Poetry was written the most but he also, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed. Dylan...