Is there anyone willing/able to make a ‘baby shark’ audio in welsh?
If anyone’s not come across it, it’s a very catchy children’s nursery rhyme which I think originated in a children’s english class in S. Korea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
Just thought it could be a fun way to get the children singing a nursery rhyme in welsh.
Sounds like it could be fun. Perhaps we could start by putting together the lyrics? Most of it sounds SSiW stuff although I cant remember us ever making a sentence with shark in it 
Looks like it’s Siarc for shark, or Morgi for Dogfish, which sounds quite cute. Sort of Sea dog
Also it sounds like someone from Glamorgan
Interestingly (well, to me, anyway) the English word ‘shark’, despite sounding perfectly English - like a cross between ‘sharp’ and ‘lark’ - is actually a borrowing from Mayan xok in about the sixteenth century. Till then, they’d only come across small sharks like dogfish in British waters, which were called either ‘dogfish’ or ‘sea-hounds’ - like morgi.
Okay, you win the internet for this week… 
Except that I’ve followed it up and it turns out that although xoc (apparently usually spelt with a c, not a k) is Yucatec Mayan for shark, it’s basically a coincidence. According to LanguageHat:
In this 2013 thread, Piotr Gąsiorowski points out that the Mayan etymology of shark is untenable: “Quite apart from formal problems (too early for hypercorrect rhoticity), shark is now first attested from 1442, nine years before Columbus was born.”Shame, really. I got the alleged Mayan etymology from a book about decoding Mayan hieroglyphs, I think: it referred to lots of rulers who were basically named after the day they were born according to the Meso-American system of numbers and tutelary deities/totem animals/whatever, so it was full of accounts of people called things like “Number 10 Jaguar”. I suggested “Number 10 Jaguar” as a possible name for our firstborn, but my partner was having none of it, for some reason…
So, it’s back to Siarc Babi?
Rhedeg bant doo doo doo doo, Rhedeg bant doo doo doo doo, Rhedeg bant doo doo doo doo, rhedeg bant 
Oh, it always was - siarc is perfectly good Welsh, just as ‘shark’ is perfectly good English - it’s just a shame to lose its claim to being the only English word to come from Mayan.
And it’s nothing to do with me being bitter about being wrong, nothing at all
I’m afraid I’m just going to have to ignore that correction. Sometimes beauty matters more than truth… 
What a fun thread this has been for me. Diolch, pawb. My 14 year old daughter and her friends still occasionally sing Babi Siarc.
I’m sending this to my family to annoy them, so couldn’t really leave out my SSiW friends
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=baby+shark+james+corden&view=detail&mid=F256C06360511AE0A852F256C06360511AE0A852&FORM=VIRE
Well, thank you for that…now I know what you are all talking about (clearly my children were not in this generation). Now how do I get this OUT OF MY HEAD! 
One my daughter found for her daughter, I hummed it for a while and thought it had faded, but you’ve just re-ignited the flame…
Whatever you do, DON’T search for the Remix version 
When is SaySomethingInMayan coming out, then?
