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Yesterday morning, a couple of friends and I were sitting around at the
Northern Renaissance Faire when the discussion turned to languages -- most
notably Old English, Irish Gaelic and, inevitably, Welsh.  It is quite
interesting discussing these in a frame of mind meant to emulate that
of the latter 1500s.

Now, Welsh is a most peculiar language in that it appears to have words
which turn out to look more like acronyms, or the linguistic equivalent
of line noise.  If you've ever seen Welsh written out, you know what I
mean -- each word is typically a bunch of consonants with a few vowels
sprinkled here and there for flavor, and is in no way connected with a
word that sounds like its Anglo-Latin equivalent.  Take, for example,
the word "Wales" -- the name of their own country.  They spell it
"CYMRU".  Makes perfect sense, right?  Yeah, thought so.  It looks more
like an acronym for "Celtic Youth Mythical Research Union", or something
like that.  And that's just one of the short words (ask someone who
is a bit more familiar with Welsh to come up with a longer one -- they
can achieve twenty or more letters in one word, and you're lucky if there's
more than two vowels in the bunch).

Well, we finally figured out what must have happened.

Ages ago, long before the latter 1500s, there must have been a large exodus
from Wales which eventually settled in what is now called Hawaii.

\...and they took all the vowels with them when they left.

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