[wraymond]

I had two English teachers. Both were Welsh. With Liverpudlian tendencies. And both had a hatred of subjunctive coagulating associative clauses. Hence the absence of such in my first three sentences. Now in normal, but hopefully just as easily understood, proper English:

My teachers had stunningly archetypical Welsh speech patterns, difficult to understand for a young scouser fully to grasp. They also were determined to instil courtesy and manners into the language of behaviour of their whacker charges. They viewed the uninvited correction of grammmmar an’ spellllin’ (that’s how they pronounced it) as ungentlemanly. As they were at least three times my age, they are more than likely to have gone on to a heavenly Cardiff Arms Park so the preceding lapse of gentlemanly conduct will be unlikely to draw rebuke.


Aaaagghhh


Edit. Just heard on Daily Politics: Eurovision organisers have refused to allow the Welsh National flag for being political. I think that's ungentlemanly.