All The Stations ... in Welsh 

actually you should have an all the stations t-shirt with all 2,500 station names printed in very small written on the back like some sort of concert shirt or one of those school leavers shirts with everyone's name on it

I'm nothing like a fluent speaker, but my sister-in-law is a native speaker, and she (and a dictionary) have given me some help: #1 - "All stations", as in "All stations to Aberystwyth". (#2 not in contention). #3 - "Every one of the stations". #4 - "All the stations", as in "All the leaves are brown". #5 - "The stations - all of them", as in "The dogs all have fleas". #6 - "The totality of the stations", as in "Read all of the books". #4 is probably the best translation of the English phrase "All the stations" _in vacuo_ but not (I would say) the best one in this context. #5 is probably the best translation of the theme song lyrics. #3 and #6 are, in my opinion, the best translation for the series title, with a slight edge to #3. But I expect others will have a different opinion.

Ah, I love staying up so late that I manage to catch an All The Stations video before I go to sleep! ;)

Matt's pronunciation is so quintessentially North West Walian, I love it

I would like Tom Scott's view on this :)

Welsh speaker here, Yr holl orsefoedd is more correct, the rest sound too informal, almost what Welsh learners would say, to me they sound childlike, while Yr holl orsafoedd sounds more grown up! 😉 In fact before hearing all the options, it was the one I thought of.

well thanks for the ton of graphics work coming my way!

I think it's Pob un o'r y gorsafoedd. My credentials? My uncle was Professor of place names at Bangor university, has written many books on place names and translated them into Welsh. Remember the 80s computer game Granny's Garden? My uncle and my dad were the chief translators and produced the Welsh version for all Welsh distribution. My nain lived in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and my uncle is often on S4C talking about many topics about Wales, Welsh language and place names.

I love that you've done this video! (and it's been great fun watching you in Wales this week). I'll point all my Welsh speaking friends to this site and we'll see what happens. I love the fact that you're expecting a flame war!

I'm not Welsh, but I am a linguist (and a dialectologist at that), so I love everything about this! Diolch! And yes, you do have to do the same in Scottish.

*expecting flame war*

Welsh sounds wonderful.

"Yr Holl Orsafoedd" is what I'd say! 😊

Will the theme tune be remixed in Welsh once the winner is chosen... ;-)

I speak Welsh and it's 'yr holl orsafoedd' (You spelt the 'Ur holl Orsafoedd' incorrectly) but that's grammatically correct. Oh and the pronunciation of the Llanfairpwll was actually quite a decent to be fair. And the welsh guy is pronouncing orsafoedd as far as I can hear. Hearing the English pronouncing stuff wrong is something we all like to do in Wales.

Looking forward to the "All the stations theme tune (Welsh remix)"

Well done Vicki, you did a great job there.

Perhaps the problem is that "All The Stations" isn't actually a sentence? (you can imagine that "we visit all the stations" might be different to "all the stations have a platform") Just a guess on my part though

Not being a native Welsh speaker, I thought it would be fun to see how Google's machine translation renders the phrase. Interestingly, "All the stations" (capital A) renders as "Mae pob un o'r gorsafoedd" but "all the stations" (small A) renders as "holl orsafoedd", which remains consistent if the phrase is expanded to visiting... / travelling to... - so in the 'eyes' of Google's computers seems to be the company's preferred rendition.

It is true, Welsh is more prominent than Scottish Gaelic. I'm from Scotland but I can't twist a fact.

Easiest option is to shout them out loud in a German accent.

I'm reminded of Bill and Ted's Station - Stayshun...Staaayshun...

Well done Vicki for standing up for Gaelic! 😁 Don't think it will be so easy to find Gaelic speakers when you get up north, but I hope yous do!

As there are 2 wildly different dialect of Welsh, this is no surprise. Mae pob un o'r gorsafoedd?

I've just tweeted the Welsh Language Commissioner's office to ask if they'll help! They're the people who would fine Arriva if they got it wrong, so who knows maybe they will help! ... by the way, it's 'Yr' not 'Ur' for 'the' in one of your choices.

i am from south wales and i do know there are a few dialets of welsh south wales welsh maybe slightly different to north wales welsh.

All the 'All the Stations'

Was half expecting the outro music vocals to feature each of the Welsh options!

In English and all other languages we have lots of ways of saying the same thing. It could be All the stations, every station, every one of the stations, all stations, but context is everything. My husband's a first language welsh speaker from South Wales and his final favourite is Gyd y gorsafoedd but he's changed his mind while we've been discussing it! The Welsh in North Wales is different from that in South wales too. He believes North Walians think South Wales Welsh is babyish :)

There are difference in saying words , north and south wales , valleys etc 1st version

Fluent Welsh speaker here. In your poll above number 1 sounds wrong to me. If you want to use "gyd" like that then 4 is the only way that I would use it. As mentioned elsewhere it's "yr" not "ur" for number 3. Number 5 translates to "to all the stations" As an alternative what about "Pob gorsaf". It translates to "Every station" rather than "All the stations" but it's a bit snappier than any of the ones in the poll.

One thing to point out at this stage - #4 probably should be "Yr holl orsafoedd" (not "Ur").

Hmmm I won't vote; I know no more Welsh than Vicki and Geoff. Gaelic is quite prevalent in parts of Scotland, but Trains don't tend to go to those parts..

My god, Jeff. Wars have been fought over less .

Its, Y Holl Orsafoedd. Credentials born in Conwy, speak Welsh every day (school and home). P.S come back to Conwy you missed so much! Diolch

Make a t-shirt with all the station names on in very small print to fit them all on.

Vicki: you are NOT idiots! ☺😝☺ I only wish I could do the Welsh inflictions like you... 🤓

A much simpler one - "pob gorsaf". And yes, I'm Welsh.

I was at that station only last weekend! Also I'm fairly certain it's the first one as if you translate each word individually then it is correct (I think)

As a welsh fluent Welsh speaker, I would perosnaly say "pob gorsaf"

From a Scot, don't bother with Gaelic. Understood by less than 1%, an primarily in places that are nowhere near the rail network! (Though the SNP like to waste money getting signs across the country redone to include it....)

Very nice fun video! But what is Welsh for Quaint?

I think the problem is that there is not an exact equivalent for the English word ALL in Welsh. There are two similar words: CYD (or GYD) which means 'together' as in the Welsh word 'cyd-fyw', meaning to 'live together', HOLL which means 'complete' or 'total' as in the Welsh word 'hollbwysig', meaning 'totally important' or 'vital'. If you use the TOGETHER word, you get: Y gorsafoedd i gyd 'The stations taken together' If you use the TOTAL word, you get: Yr holl orsafoedd 'The totality of the stations'

All the options on one t-shirt?

The station signs in Scotland are in English and Gaelic

Look you, All The Stations...Boyo?

I want a t-shirt with all the ways of saying 'all the stations' in Welsh.

Since Arriva Trains is owned by DB (Germany's national rail company) could you do a German one as well. It's similar to Dutch "Alle die Stationen"

Scottish Gaelic is pronounced, Scottish Gah-lech. Just my top tip of the day :)

My guess is that Welsh isn't the only language for which there's no single clear translation. For instance, translating "All the stations" to Dutch, one could arrive at "Alle stations", "Al de stations", "Ieder station", or "Elk station" (the second one the most literal translation, but the least likely to be used).

Wait... so you have been to Porthmadog? Is there going to be a video about the Rheilffordd Ffestiniog?

Currently pearning Welsh on Duolingo

I'm gonna be so bummed out if you guys miss out Gaelic when you come to Scotland (especially since almost every station name board is bi-lingual in Scotland). Come on Geoff and Vicki, give it a go! :)

Great Fun (!!) and a Tribute :-)

Please, please tell me that you recorded the station announcement on the train for "that" station!

Good show, Vicki! You did much better than I can!

it or depends if you live in North Wales or south Wales... or Evan different areas of Wales...

Scots (Lallans) version? - is there a diffrence to standard English? And Welsh subtitles on all the Welsh videos!

well done. I'll definitely buy a Welsh one

In German you can say "Alle Stationen", but it doesn't mean much: 1. "Station" means rather "stop" or "halt", 2. the phrase seems taken out of context. I think we'd have to say "Rundreise aller Bahnhöfe" (roundtrip through all stations).

And guys - when you do come to Scotland and try your hand at the Gaelic, it's "gal-lic", not "gay-lic".

As a Flemisch speaker I'd go for 'Ur holl orsafoedd'... just because it sounds the most 'Westvlaams'. :P

Made me homesick.

To be honest I'd just say "pob orsafoedd" - but I'm in the south Wales valleys where Welsh isn't heard all that often.

Weirdly I got a hang of pronouncing Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch because we have a lot of Welsh town in Pennsylvania, USA and it was easy to piece the words together. Though my thick NYC accent kinda botches it.

I felt the same way about the South African town of "Oudtshoorn". No two people said it the same way, and I think they are just trolling the tourists.

A station track without weeds ,wonderful

I don't know any Welsh but if you Google translate all the stations it comes out as "holl orsafoedd"....but if you translate All the stations (capital A in All) it comes out as "Mae pob un o'r gorsafoedd". Good luck with your quest guys, Regards Steve

There's no poll

What kind of mobile phone case is that? It seems to be a bit thinker on lower part. 🤔

I asked a Welsh friend of mine and he says this is what it should be, "Holl orsafoedd" - so a 7th variant!

Another word that works here is POB, which means 'every' or 'each'. For example: 'popeth' (a contraction of 'pob peth') means 'everything'. So we get: Pob gorsaf 'Every station', or Pob un o'r gorsafoedd 'Every one of the stations' So ALL in English can be either POB, CYD or HOLL in Welsh. It's a really cute language. When words are not exactly equivalent in English and Welsh, we have to use 'translanguaging' rather than 'translation'. Get the overall meaning of the English, then find some phrase that expresses the same meaning in Welsh - rather than trying to translate each individual word. A nice example is describing colours in Welsh: GLAS is 'blue', and GWYRDD is 'green', but the colour boundaries are not quite the same in the two languages. A hill covered in forest might look 'green' in English, but 'glas' in Welsh.

well done Vicky for say the longest Welsh word.

Hi Geoff and Vicki. After a difficult few days hopefully trains will be on time again. What is Nine and three quarters in welsh?

So, what were the final results? Which of the six got the most votes? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

Jesus where did you get those translations from? Some of them are just awful 😂. Yr holl orsafoedd is what I'd go with.

As a non Welsh speaker, I am hoping that the bob one is correct.

From the way Vicki said "Bob", should I assume that you are Blackadder fans?

Have asked the no lying source of the internet and it very interesting Google Translate has 3 verisons All the Stations - Mae pob un o'r Gorsafoedd All The Stations - Holl Mae Gorsafoedd all the stations - holl orsafoedd

At least they are trying to say it in Welsh with an attempt at pronunciation. There are different dialects which effects usage, and words. What is acceptable in Cardiff, might not be acceptable in Swansea, what is acceptable in South Wales, probably won't be in North Wales. Then there are mutations in the language. These occur where the context is different. So the beginnings of words change. When I was a civil servant in the Welsh Government we sought help for Welsh from a Welsh language translation department. I think in many non Welsh speaking areas this would be true. There are number of screw ups. My favourite was in Swansea. A request for a translation of a road sign was met with an out of office reply. No entry for goods vehicles was the English and the Welsh out of office reply was added as the Welsh translation. In Welsh it stated "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated". news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm. Also a sign asking cyclists to dismount became 'bladder inflammation upset' with confusion between the words cyclists and cystitis. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4794753.stm Also for other examples - www.google.co.uk/search?q=welsh+translation+fails&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=89RYWZIjr8DyB42Ft7AH

Not sure about Google translates version.

In my native languages, "All the Stations" can be translated into: Filipino: Lahat ng Stasyon/Paradahan/Hintuan (context applies here; literally means "all stations/stops") Cebuano: Tanang Stasyon/Hununganan (same as Filipino, context; same meaning as Filipino) German: Alle Bahnhöfe (literally means "all train houses," but is understood as "all the stations")

1st one is correct in pembrokeshire but who knows our language is so wierd they r probs all right

In Estonian you could say kõik raudteejaamad... A train is rong so train information is rong info.

I think you pronounced Llanfairpwllgwyngyll... pretty well.

Not that anybody cares, but in Portuguese it's "todas as estações".

The locals call it Klanfair-PG

I was waiting for this,thank you. But you failed at the pronunciation of the letters ll and f, rest was ok.

All the Sydney. Stations

You definitely should do Scottish gaelic (in Scotland it's pronounced Gah-lik rather than Gay-lik). After all you'll be traversing 'An Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean', the stunning iron road to the Isles (West Highland line).

I’m from Newcastle and I think it is pronounced Haway man two blokes gan to all the stations, like. No offence

My partner is Welsh and she’s going to teach me some 😂

Pob gorsaf. Doesn't even need the plural in that form. Or the definite article, come to that.

I'm only joking. I'm a South Londoner.

Holl Mae Gorsafoedd seems correct to me. It's the easiest one to pronounce.

Y gorsafoedd i gyd. I'm a native speaker from Ynys Mon and this is how I would say it absolutely

Why are people from Wales called Welsh and not Walers?

Can I None Above

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How about doing all this episode in Welsh?