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Old 08-20-2006, 01:22 AM   #40
Urbane Guerrilla
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The former town of Merion Square was renamed Gladwyne in 1891 in order to imitate the stylish Welsh names of adjoining towns, although the name is meaningless in Welsh.
The Anglophone ear would have difficulty distinguishing "glad" from "gwlad," I suppose, though gwlad's A is broad rather than short, and the W's "oo" sound in Welsh is unstressed in this word, so the word tends to sound like "g'lahd." It means nation or country.
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