Ty,
We could just as easily conjecture that the words are properly formed
as Tan af drych or Tendrych
and that modern California pagan folklorists are combining Welsh words
willy nilly in ways
that the Welsh, themselves, would never do and might, in fact, laugh
raucously about. ;->
Felicia
a skeptic who grew up in California which is known as the Land of
Fruits, Nuts & Flakes
whose emails to the Listserve are no longer bouncing
Thank you, Amy!
On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Ty Falk wrote:
> This might be a stupid question coming from someone who knows next to
> nothing on the topic, but how much of the linguistic evolution was
> purely oral? For example, new words are "officially" added to the
> English language all the time, often because of cultural usage. Would
> it be possible that this combination was such a product, passed willy
> nilly through oral tradition of some for or another with no central
> authority to "legitimize" it's use?
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