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Ohmigawd, ohmigawd--I'm going to BE THERE in two weeks! Thank you! I have been dreading having to ask directions to Eglwysywrw (among other places).
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Omigawd, omigawd, she's going to be there in two weeks! Batten down the hatches (or however you say it in Welsh). 
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From your site, dodyskin:
The Welsh themselves are descendants of the Galatians, to whom Paul wrote his famous letter.
This doesn't sound right. Surely the Welsh were already in Britain by the time Paul was writing his letters. Who did the Romans conquer if they weren't? That the Welsh and Galatians descended from two different migrations of the original Celtic peoples seems more probable.
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>The Welsh themselves are descendants of the Galatians, to whom Paul wrote his famous letter.
This doesn't sound right. Surely the Welsh were already in Britain by the time Paul was writing his letters.
Aah, pishtosh, Bingley - one ought never let the facts get in the way of a good story, you should know that.
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Batten down the hatches (or however you say it in Welsh). Keep it up, Buddy, and I'll batten YOUR hatches down for you! 
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descendants of the Galatians, to whom Paul wrote his famous letter
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The comma doesn't make any difference to what I'm disputing, which is that the Welsh are descendants of the Galatians. The ancestors of the Welsh were already in the British Isles at the time Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, who, not surprisingly, were in Galatia, which is part of modern-day Turkey.
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The comma doesn't make any difference
Quite the otherwise. Without the comma it is a restrictive clause and *would be saying that the Welsh were descended from the very people to whom Paul had written one of his little diatribes. With it it merely identifies the Galatians, from whom the Welsh were putatively descended, as those people, a subset of to whom Paul wrote.
Whether the Welsh were, in fact, descended from the same people who populated the burg of Galatia is a whole nother question.
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Faldage, I think you're picking the wrong nit.  That "whole nother question" is precisely the one Bingley is questioning. 
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