In the challenges ‘to eat’ always seems to sounds like ‘bitta’. Is this some kind of South Wales thing? I was always taught bwyta and I’ve never heard ‘bitta’ anywhere apart from here.
That’s the word. Bwyta…
I hear bwyta pronounced bitta up here in the North too. There are some dialects that pronounce bwyta as it’s spelt and some that pronounce it like bitta - just use whichever you feel comfortable with.
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But it always seems to pronounced like ‘boyta’ everywhere else which made me think it might be something different.
Apologies, that was a reply before Siaron posted. Must have hit send at about the same time.
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bitta / bweeta / boyta. Just as in most other languages including English, pronunciation varies considerably as you move around. *(Try ordering du peng, du veng and du Bourseng in Paris (pain/vin/Boursin) 
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My wife and I can’t even agree on the pronunciation of “bus”, “grass” or “bath” in English 
It’s “bitta” in the parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire I’m familiar with.
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Hmm, I supposed you do hear a bus called a buzz in Birmingham for example.
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Ah yes. We were asked to take part in another survey at Ty Tawe last Saturday. This time it was about Cymraeg and health (I think). I say that because I was getting life and food mixed up 
Up north you’ll hear boo-ee-ta/but-ta/bit-ta and a version with emphasis on the first vowel sound which sounds like the Welsh ‘u’ - buta. 
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Oh gosh, I have that problem too. 
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Keep meaning to ask about variations on “hwyl”. On Rownd a Rownd, I hear it as “hoo-eel”, but in southern speakers and more generally, it’s more like “hoyl”.
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