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in reply to a message by Ozma
It's pretty unlikely to ever get a comeback in Wales, imo, at least not for a long while. There were just too many of them. Now the last ones are dying off and it's pretty much only used in the UK by the children of Chinese and African immigrants, judging by the surnames in the birth records.
I can totally see the clunky charm! But I could never use it. It's in a special cupboard with Blodwen and Myfanwy.
I can totally see the clunky charm! But I could never use it. It's in a special cupboard with Blodwen and Myfanwy.
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Interesting that it's found favour with African immigrants (I'm impressed, having taught in a Chinese school for a year, that the Chinese can pronounce it at all!) because the youngest Gladys I know, by several decades, is an immigrant from the DR Congo. She is a very nice girl, in her early 20s now I suppose, with remarkable artistic talent and grew up speaking French and a local language (which she's forgotten. There's a video of her as a 3-year-old chatting to her grandparents in a language unknown to her adult self), so the associations are good, but not good enough.
As far as elderly adult Gladyses are concerned, when I was growing up I knew a Scot and a Yorkshirewoman, both living in the same South African street of about a dozen houses. Not just a Welsh preference, clearly.
As far as elderly adult Gladyses are concerned, when I was growing up I knew a Scot and a Yorkshirewoman, both living in the same South African street of about a dozen houses. Not just a Welsh preference, clearly.
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