Well this week on UKC the debate over how the media refer Yr Wyddfa or Snowdon. Now typical any journalist worth their salt on BBC or ITV will refer incorrectly to Wales highest peak as Mount Snowdon. Now obviously this has the potential to get proper mountaineers backs ups.
Now simply adding a mount in front of the name is nothing to the damage the average Englishman can do to the welsh language. I was once ask for direction to Dolly-girl-loo, it took me a while to realise they wanted to head to Dolgellau or Dull-geth-lie.
However, I want to start a new campaign to rename Snowdon, to simply The Mountain, its a concept that comes from Talkeetna, Alaska. Where all local refer to Denali (notice I didn’t call mount!) as simply The Mountain. You get great conversation like “you going up the mountain”, “No, I just been up the mountain”. It gets real fun if you not going up THE mountain, but going up A mountain, it certain turns head.
It would also stop all problems with pronunciation.