Have been frantically trying to write all weekend (note “trying” in that sentence, though I have come up with 5500 words since Friday morning). My quest yesterday was to make up a fictional Welsh town.

With the help of a Welsh translator, I’ve come up with Hedegogllygoden, which looks suitably full of l’s and g’s, but is, I fear, so silly that any Welsh-speaking person will merely snort in derision.

Any Welsh speakers out there who can help me??

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   At 1:13 pm Ruth said:

   It looks to me like the middle bit is what sends it over the believable edge? But I was only there for a year so what do I know
   You could do something with and ‘Aber’ at the beginning as there seem to be a load of those in Wales (wikipedia has a list that you could maybe snaffle ideas from to twist into something new?)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aber_and_Inver_as_place-name_elements

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   At 8:41 pm Sally Lawton said:

   I grew up in Wales and spoke it fluently for 13 years. I think it’s sounds great.

   But I’ve not spoken Welsh for another 13 years…

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   At 1:33 pm Liz said:

   I live in Wales and the middle bit is what looks right to me! I’d have been tempted to make the “d” a “dd” though. Which is pronounced “th”

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   At 2:08 pm Liz said:

   Aber — means “mouth of” as in river, by the way. Wales is a very wet place which is why there are so many of them…

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   At 11:33 pm Julie said:

   Thank you!

   Hmm. The thing is, Hedegogllygoden means “flying mice”, which is both too appropriate and too stupid for a book about bat conservationists. Will explore “Aber-” + mouse formations…

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