*blushes* Well, pronunciation is pretty simple with Welsh because it's pretty phonetic. There's a guide on CMC from which: u ee in the South, but not in the North . If you had stepped in something disgusting and made a kind of ‘eugh’ noise, the vowel ‘eu’ sound would about approximate the Northern ‘u’. If you don’t have access to a Gog who can teach you this noise, stick to the Southern sound - it’s much easier w oooooo y ok, y breaks the rule that Welsh is phonetic. As a single syllable word, y is like ‘uh’, on the last syllable of a multisyllabic word it’s an ‘ee’, and anywhere else it’s like the unstressed, indeterminate noise of the final e in ‘garden’ or ‘letter’. Ysbyty (hospital) is the perfect example. Maybe I'll do an audioblog post about it soon.