We are on hold, though not for very long, I hope - I got the manuscript to them bang on time, and it has gone through the review stage, so I am now waiting for the proof-PDFs to be sent to me. But there have been personnel changes at Routledge Languages and I think this is slowing things down somewhat at their end…I may have to nudge them for the proofs. I suspect the new people are simply unprepared for the wonderfulness of Welsh and may be in a (hopefully temporary) protective sensory shut-down.
You (and others here) will be amused to hear that one of the reviewers disliked the manuscript, and among other things complained that I ‘consistently used chi for you, instead of the correct chwi’ !!! What a clown. University academic, I bet.
But go-ahead given, and I hope things will be moving again shortly. xx
To be fair, the university academics I know wouldn’t say anything like that! Now, retired university academic, perhaps. (In fact, I can think of one or two prime suspects…)
So now I checked a grammar book written by a Welsh scholar born in 1897 and he listed only chwi as simple pronoun, in fact.
And don’t tell me you didn’t include the Reduplicatedchwychwi and Conjunctivechwithau, chwaith!
Late late update - we are on the move again…oddly enough they were in touch mere hours after our discussion. So…final corrected version to go to them this week, with some minor modifications and rearrangements. Then while they do their stuff at their end, I have to look for a suitable cover illustration.
It’s all getting very exciting suddenly, isn’t it?
Another update - the full corrected manuscript has gone back to the publishers this afternoon.
As the third in the trilogy that started with the hilarious Working Welsh and continued with the disturbing Thinking Welsh, the title of the new book will be Doing Welsh, subtitle to be pondered on over the next few days. The cover design will echo the other two, with purple the predominant colour. As I think I have have outlined already, it is a presentation of 300 essential verbs with extensive exemplification of each, plus comments, observations and jokes as necessary. I would like to once again give my loyal readers, particularly hereabouts, a solemn and confident assurance that this latest title will thoroughly annoy, and hopefully in some cases shock, all the right people.
We really must think about a slightly more structured and consistent way to flag them up to our learners - I think it’s all a bit too haphazard at the moment - we’ll have a look at how to weave them into the app itself - maybe even a ‘Grammar’ tab (with a very quick NOT BY US disclaimer!).
wel, mae hynna wedi gwneud i mi chwerthin 
