Welsh Road Sign

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Ah, I see! The village of Pont Nedd Fechan puzzles me a bit.

I know it means "Little [River] Neath Bridge, but the Anglicised word on the dual-language signpost has "Pont Neath Vaughan". Is that to make a version easier to pronounce for us beyond the Severn?

@ArishMell the English and Welsh names for places are not always translations of each other.
That one requires some research.
Aaah....Vaughan means small.So that explains it.
A couple of examples near me..
Newport is Casnewydd.Casnewydd means Newcastle.
Newbridge is Trecelyn.Trecelyn means Hollytown.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales I'd thought Vaughan was a semi-phonetic equivalent of the pronounciation Vechan of 'Fechan' - the ch as in the Scottish loch and the German name Bach (e.g. the composers) so not easy for English people.

I see what you mean. I've just been looking in my road atlas. Even quite a number of the un-translated Welsh names seem to have an alternative nothing like the "big"name printed on the map.

A friend once asked a resident in that village, the correct pronunciation of Ystradfellte. He had a strong Scots accent and trying to copy what he'd been told, totally floored him.

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