Mr. William Welsh

Sir William Osler and his Welsh connections.

to Canada with his young bride, Ellen Free Pickton. She was a native of London, but bore a distinguished Welsh name. William was the youngest of their family of nine, and was born in the parsonage at Bond Head in Tecumseth County in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Uncle Edward was the eldest of the nine children of Grandfather Osler. He was a favourite uncle, of whom WO wrote 'we cherished an am...

Text-to-speech synthesis for welsh and welsh English

English sounds that had no equivalent in Welsh (equivalences derived from [4]). These three segments were: / /, / /, and / /. Tables 1 and 2 show the South Welsh phonemes, with their equivalents in RP and the extra English segments. This work represents the first known attempt to develop a text-to-speech synthesiser for Welsh. A list of pseudo-Welsh nonsense words was generated, allowing for ce...

Welsh I am

With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.

Welsh and Gender

Negative Entropy of Welsh