title: The Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary: A Guide to the Living Language
author: Gareth King
description: `a boon for any student of the Welsh language' Writers News, July 2000<br /><br />`it is a pleasure to use ... as both a practical word-search tool for English L1 learners using the vocabulary of everyday life, and also as a browse handbook to support the ongoing process of Welsh learning ... The book is of a convenient size for (large) pocket use, and its clear print and adequate space in the margins will encourage its regular use as a companion to any Welsh-language course. Highly recommended for students and contaning many practical lessons for future compilers of Welsh and English dictionaries.' Cathair O Dochartaigh, Language, Culture and Curriculum, Vol 13:3, 2000<br /><br />`This new dictionary has not only caught up with the state of the art...but has leapfrogged it.' Customer review<br /><br />`This book is avowedly designed for the needs of Welsh learners and in my opinion it succeeds in this magnificently...It is full of really helpful and down-to-earth information for the beginner and has been a great help to me as I begin to study the language.' Customer comments
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  # Contents
  
  
    1. [THOSE WHO KNOW by Alis Hawkins](../Text/Flow_0.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Dedication](../Text/Flow_1.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Epigraph](../Text/Flow_2.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Glossary of Welsh terms](../Text/Flow_3.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Part One](Flow_4_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Part Two](Flow_5_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Some historical notes](../Text/Flow_6.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Acknowledgements](../Text/Flow_7.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Copyright](../Text/Flow_8.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  Those  
  Who Know  
  
  
    
  
  
  Alis Hawkins
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Rob and Flo
  
  
  Wishing you both all the happiness in the world  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.
  
  
  
  
  
  Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Glossary of Welsh terms
  
  
  bara brith: speckled bread, a fruit cake
  
  
  betgwn: the outer garment of most Cardiganshire working women in the
  nineteenth century.
  
  
  It featured a tight, low-cut bodice, worn over a blouse, with a long back,
  
  
  sometimes gathered up into a ‘tail’, and was worn over petticoats and an apron
  
  
  
  
  
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