Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

Necessary DIRECTIONS to the READER who is a Stranger to the WELSH LANGUAGE; showing the right Pronunciation of all the Letters that differ from the English Orthography original: "Orthography" (the conventional spelling system of a language)..

To read Welsh, a correct knowledge of the Alphabet is all that is necessary; for (without being overly technical), all the letters maintain a single, unchanging sound, which must be distinctly pronounced, as there are no silent letters original: "Mutes". Letters that have a circumflex The '^' accent mark must be pronounced long, such as Bôn like the English word "bone"; Bŵn like "boon"; Bîn like "been"; and so on.

C: as the English "c" in can, but never soft as in city.

Ch: as the Greek letter chi original: "χ" properly pronounced. If, instead of touching the palate with the tip of the tongue to pronounce "k," you touch it with the root, it will produce this sound.

Dd: as the English "th" in them; that is, very soft; not hard as in thought.

F: as the English "v".

Ff: as the English "f" and "ff".

G: as the English "g" in god, but never soft as in genius.

I: as the English "i" in king and "ee" in been, but never as the "i" in fine *.

Ll: is an aspirated "l" A sound produced by blowing air around the sides of the tongue while making an 'l' sound.; and can be represented in English only by "lh" or "llh".

Th: as the English "th" in thought, but never soft as in them.

U: as the English "i" in bliss, this, it, etc.

W: as the English "oo" in good.

Y: as the English "u" in burn, though in the last syllable of a word and all single-syllable words original: "monosyllables" (except for y, ydd, ym, yn, yr, ys, fy, dy, and myn), it is like the "i" in sin or it. Both its sounds are nearly demonstrated in the word sundry.

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* The word fine, according to Welsh spelling original: "Orthography", would be pronounced "veene."