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on April 21, 2024

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Hedingham Castle

What is the history of Hedingham Castle? Hedingham Castle is in Castle Hedingham, in Essex. It is considered to be one of the best preserved Norman keeps in England. A keep is a type of reinforced tower, and they were a key feature of motte-and-bailey castles in France. The White Tower, which is part of the Tower of London, is one of the most famous keeps in the world! If you’re wondering who the Normans were and what a Norman keep is, the Normans invaded England in 1066. Did you know that the first Norman king of England was William the Conqueror, who ruled England between 1066 and 1087? It was William the Conqueror who gave the manor (usually meaning the land, village, and manor house) of Hedingham to the de Vere family (family of the Earls of Oxford) in 1086, and the de Vere family built a castle on the land in around 1100. The history of Hedingham Castle goes back over 900 years! http://carneycastle.com/Hedingham/

The Welsh Alphabet

I’ve often heard people say “how can you read Welsh? There’s no vowels” or “Welsh looks like a keyboard smash”. Well, like many other European languages, Welsh uses it’s own alphabet that is seperate from the English alphabet (though don’t be mistaken, it still uses the latin script). The Welsh alphabet is as follows: a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, j, l, ll, m, n, o, p, ph, r, rh, s, t, th, u, w, y You may have noticed that there are some combinations of what would be “multiple letters” in English. In Welsh, these are considered single letters. Now we know what letters we’re working with, let’s break the list down into consonants and vowels. Consonants The consonants in Welsh are the following: b, c, ch, d, dd, f, ff, g, ng, h, j, l, ll, m, n, p, ph, r, rh, s, t, th Since a lot of the consonants are said the same way they are in English, I’ll explain only how to pronounce the ones you may be unfamiliar with ch - like the ch in the Scottish word “loch” or in the na...

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