Ann, Welsh pronunciation scares the hell out of me, and I'm not easily scared. So I do the logical, I turn to David Anthony. Not many know that he is actually David Gwilym Anthony, named after no less than Dafydd ap Gwylym, who contests with Geoffrey Chaucer the bragging rights for best poet in Britain before Shakespeare. Of course for us Chaucer is mother's milk, and nobody born after Dylan Thomas and Burton can read Dafydd ap Gwylym. But break the suspense for me, damsel Ann. Surely Cwm rhymes with room, doom, and gloom. If not, I've been mispronouncing Hardy's The Oxen since boyhood!
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