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The list of standardised Welsh place-names is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
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This is list of locations in the United States named after places in Wales. A number of places in the U.S have been named after places in Wales by Welsh settlers and explorers. and are mainly in the 13 eastern states which used to be the Thirteen Colonies in the British Empire.
"City of Lord Anantha". [26] Breuschwickersheim: 18 Village in Alsace, France: Alsatian "Home of the vicar (living next to the) Bruche (river)". Rhosllannerchrugog: 18 Village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales Welsh "Moor of the Heathery Glade". Often spelt with one N, following the original Welsh, but this spelling is in common use too.
The modern Welsh language contains names for many towns and other geographical features in Great Britain and elsewhere. Names for places outside of Welsh-speaking regions are exonyms, not including spelling or pronunciation adaptations and translations of common nouns. Names not in italics [clarification needed] are dated or obsolete.
Cudahy, California: KUD-ə-h(a)y, KOO-də-/ ˈ k ʌ d ə h eɪ, ˈ k uː d ə h aɪ / Dalton, Ohio: DAL-tən / ˈ d æ l t ən / Damariscotta, Maine: dam-riss-KOT-ə / d æ m r ɪ ˈ s k ɒ t ə / Darien, Connecticut: DAIR-ee-AN / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ æ n / Delhi, California: DEL-hy / ˈ d ɛ l h aɪ / Name of multiple places Del Norte County ...
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from Old Celtic bardos, either through Welsh bardd (where the bard was highly respected) or Scottish bardis (where it was a term of contempt); Cornish bardh cawl a traditional Welsh soup/stew; Cornish kowl coracle from corwgl. This Welsh term was derived from the Latin corium meaning "leather or hide", the material from which coracles are made ...