I found this item on my saucer after finishing my tea at a local inn - if you think creatively you can clearly tell what it is!
It's a biscuit, aka bisged!
We also came across a new Christian name we'd not encountered before - Dewi. It's not pronounced like the Dewey decimal system, but more like 'Debbie', but as if you have a speech impediment and can't say your 'b's: deh-wee. It's a common Welsh masculine name!
Here's another weird one:
Trebor Jones, not Trevor! I think the name was given by someone who'd just had anesthesia at the dentist and couldn't form their lips properly to say Trevor and it stuck!
3 comments:
was that bisged to die for?
and... on that sign: what are those dots for? . .. ... ..... ... .....
just wondering -- BG
That bisged was not much to write home about; the only thing that really stood out was the spelling!
I wish I could help explain those weird dots under some letters - I don't yet have a clue, but you've certainly unleashed my inner Nancy Drew.
Only an AI interaction was able to provide anything that might make sense here:
"The small rows of dots located beneath the text in this image are not Welsh grammatical or linguistic symbols. They are a printing artifact from low-resolution graphic reproduction or photo copying. The image shows a low-resolution, high-contrast monochrome scan or photocopy of a sign for Trebor Jones & Son Ltd, an agricultural engineering firm based in Llanfyllin, Powys. When looking closely at the original company layout, there is a subline written in Welsh and English directly below the main title. The small dots are remnants of that tiny subline text:The original logo features the tiny bilingual text "PENSYALWYR AMAETHYDDOL / AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS" in a small font right beneath "Trebor Jones & Son".Because this specific image is a high-contrast photocopy, the tiny letters of that bilingual line were too small to render clearly.The scanner or copier sensor chopped the tiny text into small pixel fragments, leaving behind rows of isolated dithered dots where the small letters used to be."
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