Word of the Day 20/09/2018
As requested, here are some kitchen items…
Sieve would be either gogr or rhidyll. Both are in common use.
Gogr = gog as in pedaGOGue but with an r on the end - sounds like gogger
Rhidyll = hree-dee-ll
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Okay, I think this is a British English vs American English question. What (on your side of the pond) do you consider a “sieve”? I know the word but what I think of is not a kitchen thing, so I’m curious.
E2A - looking it up in GM, I think what you are talking about is what we call a sifter?
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Just for comparison - cause sometimes English language has so many words for basically the same thing, that I’m not sure I understand it right.
The first thing that comes to my mind is a large sifter that’s used just for flour.
But I guess it’s any sifter/colander with a mesh as opposed to what we call “colapasta” for pasta and washing vegetables!
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Yes, that’s it!
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Colander in Welsh is, rather predictively, “colandr”.
And just to confuse the matter further, “rhidyll” is also riddle which is used in the garden and looks like this …
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I’d call that a sieve too! Just saying.
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Funny thing of you make the mesh finer on that it’s called a Tam in a professional kitchen.
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This sort of thing - outside a home kitchen - is what I’ve always thought of as a sieve. Gruntius’ “riddle” above looks more like the ones in my garage.
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Word(s) of the Day 24/09/2018
So we’re still in the kitchen and this time we’re bringing photos!
In addition to these two below…
Twmffat = tum-phat
Stwnsiwr = stoon-sure
Chwisg = choo-eesg (Welsh ch)
Clorian = clore-yan
Crafell = crah-vell (Welsh ll)
Gratiwr = gratt-yoor
Ysbodol = us-bod-all
Spatwla = spatt-oo-la
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I can’t help seeing words like “colandr”, “spatwla” and “gratiwr” next to the words “hidlwr”, “ysbodol” and “crafell” without thinking that Welsh is such a beautiful language why would we want the former when we already have the latter.
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Indeed! 
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Remember this…
Well had Del Boy (aka Derek Edward Trotter) and Rodney been Welsh, then Del would have most probably called Rodney a…
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Loving Stwnshiwr
Edit: sorry no H Just stwnsiwr. Hopefully sounds the same though.
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Diolch yn fawr, Catrin. Twnffat, two definitions for the price of one 
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So Derek would have called Rodney a FUNNEL?!? 
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Sorry, me again 
I’ve just realised why I love Stwns, swnsio, etc.
It reminds me of Dunsh/Dunch. Nudge bump bash in English, but a bit dialecty now.
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