I started the vocabulary the other day for the Northern course, and ran into some confusion with vocabulary module two. I cannot figure out what the word for woman is that is being pronounced in this section. I had previously been through the Southern course where it was “menw” but whatever is being said sound nothing whatever like that. Can anyone steer me in the right direction, os gwelwch yn dda? Diolch.
I think the word you are after is “dynes” often mutated to “ddynes” pronounced THE-ness. I emphasise the “I think” bit. 
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Thanks kindly. I believe you are right.
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This isn’t really a reply. It’s a question!! I am forever coming across words I’ve never met on TV!! The latest are actually two words: hogyn and hogen for boy and girl!! Are these gogledd??? They don’t sound very nice to my ear, or is that just because I know the Englsh: ‘hog’???
I believe these are used in the new Level 2, Gog.
In the north:
Hogyn = boy
Hogan = girl
Hogia = boys (hogs informally on occasion)
Genod = girls (plural of geneth, which you’ll also hear for girl in the north - Môn in particular, I think).
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In Pen-y-Groes I’ve heard - Hogia - used in the way Americans use - Guy - when a group of men and women have entered the pub…“Iawn hogia/Alright guys.”
I’ve also heard women call each boi/boy other when greeting each other.
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Yup. In the south bois is used to address a group of people in a non-gender specific way. “Reit, bois” or “Cmon bois” is how I attract the attention of a group of my daughter’s friends, even if they’re all girls.
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On Rownd a Rownd - which is set in Ynys Mon - they use hogyn, hogan and hogia regularly, as described in previous postings.
Also, I recently heard a male character describing, in a humourous was, himself and his female companion collectively as “re(a)l bois”.
(However, he’s just returned to the area after a long time away, and might have picked this up in the south. 
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