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« 6050. Now the first name objected to is spelt upon the map with a “p” for pont and two “d”s at the end of Newydd?—Yes.
6051. Do you think that is correct?—Quite correct: What Mr. Evans proposes by putting a single “d” there; it is a delta he puts to express “dd”—a soft “th.”
6052. Now is the Greek delta commonly introduced in writing Welsh?—In manuscript it sometimes is.
6053. Would you see it in a newspaper?—Oh, never.
6054. It is rather what I might call a doctrine of perfection?—Yes.
6055. Are scholars usually adopting it?—I am not aware of it. A few may in correspondence. I have a letter this morning from my Welsh gardener; he certainly does not use a delta—there are more than a dozen instances of “dd.” Here also is the Welsh notice of the Merionethshire County Council for November; there is no instance of the delta being used, it is always “dd.”
6056. (Sir A. Geike.) But may I ask is it the case that in the old manuscripts the delta is used?—Oh no.
6057. Surely the delta is a modern introduction?—Well, modern; in some old manuscripts you will find some characters used, but they are always given up in ordinary printing.
6059 I do not know myself; it occurs to me that it is a comparatively modern introduction into manuscripts?—You see how impossible it is to follow the delta. because here is a type-written copy, and there is hardly one of them correct; it is put as a single “d” here.
6060. (Chairman.) But Mr. Evans has written to us calling our attention to the way in which we have spelt in our print the corrections which are suplied to us in manuscript?—Yes. In sheet 249 there is the sheet; you see this is the county boundary of Glamorgan, two-thirds of this is the county of Monmouth, and I should expect in this part of Glamorgan and of Monmouthshire lots of corruptions in names of houses and places, and locally well established, which Mr. Rowland would be unable to alter on the Ordnance sheet.
6061. He suggests also that in addition to the Greek delta you should use Ð with a dash across the tail of it?—Yes; nobody could decribe it, because nobody would use it in ordinary printing.
6062. Nobody would use it in ordinary printing?—No. »