Job Centre Gwawdodyn
By Alfie Shoyger
Thu, 27 Sep 2018
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I said, “Jobs are just there to annoy.”
He smiled, “Come, now. What do you enjoy?”
I replied, “Obscure Welsh poetic forms.”
He scowled, “The door’s over there, my boy.”
From “Disoccidented” by Alfie Shoyger:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disoccidented-Alfie-Shoyger/dp/1999922859
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You've had fun there! I'd
You've had fun there! I'd never heard of it, and on looking up one of the explanations eventually realised you sort-of had the internal rhyme aswell.
Seems such an odd word, as 'gwawd' means now usually 'scorn' or 'satire' and yet, apparently can (archaically, obsolete) mean poetry or song, and 'gwawdlef' a 'song of paise'. Rhiannon
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