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[Pinno718]

I really ought to frequent this thread more often.

 

[dicko]

 

[Punkawallah]

Neither is Barry Island in actual fact. It was once, but since the docks were built (in the 1870's), it isn't.

Yeeees. ‘Barry Island’ was, but isn’t. ‘Isle of Dogs’ isn’t, but is so named.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Yeeees. ‘Barry Island’ was, but isn’t. ‘Isle of Dogs’ isn’t, but is so named.

when I was a teenage I once opened an OS map of the Wirral

and followed all the waterways - rivers and canals and the like

and discovered that technically it was possible to define The Wirral Peninsula as an island as you could not get to it without crossing water

I did have to follow the map quite a long way towards Chester but I did trace water all across the "landward side" of the place



I was an only child and there were no other kids I knew anywhere near where I lived

and it was probably raining

 

[craigwend]

 

[classic33]

 

[Profpointy]

And yet the Isle of Dogs is not.

Neither is Ynysybwl; a place name that flummoxes the English. By was of explanation "ynys" means "island" but it's 20 or 30 miles inland

 

[Alex321]

Neither is Ynysybwl; a place name that flummoxes the English. By was of explanation "ynys" means "island" but it's 20 or 30 miles inland

I was brought up mostly in England, and both my parents were English. When we moved to Pontypridd, and mum wanted to come t visit, she asked for directions. I told her turn off the A470 at Pontypridd, and follow the sign for Ynysybwl. She asked me t spell it, then came out with "But its got no vowels!". (y and W are both vowels in Welsh.

Ynys doesn't always mean Island though, it can mean water meadow, and almost certainly did in the case of Ynysybwl.

 

[Pinno718]

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Great find @classic33

Though technically... I won't.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was brought up mostly in England, and both my parents were English. When we moved to Pontypridd, and mum wanted to come t visit, she asked for directions. I told her turn off the A470 at Pontypridd, and follow the sign for Ynysybwl. She asked me t spell it, then came out with "But its got no vowels!". (y and W are both vowels in Welsh.

Ynys doesn't always mean Island though, it can mean water meadow, and almost certainly did in the case of Ynysybwl.

I still reckon that Dwygyfylchi is signposted off the A55 just to annoy the English

 

[lenfield]

I was brought up mostly in England, and both my parents were English. When we moved to Pontypridd, and mum wanted to come t visit, she asked for directions. I told her turn off the A470 at Pontypridd, and follow the sign for Ynysybwl. She asked me t spell it, then came out with "But its got no vowels!". (y and W are both vowels in Welsh.

Ynys doesn't always mean Island though, it can mean water meadow, and almost certainly did in the case of Ynysybwl.

'Innis' also means island in Scots Gaelic.

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Though if this thread was only about snail jokes it'd be a bit sluggish.. 👍

Why, sorry I am a bit slow

 

[Ming the Merciless]