I bumped into John Cushnahan this afternoon in the European Parliament, and he raised a perfectly reasonable objection to my description of him in this entry. Entirely fair; I should have written “sometimes acerbic” rather than “somewhat acerbic”, and I should have added “always a shrewd judge of character”. To which I would now add, “increasingly mellow”.
(I doubt that he is a regular reader here but any sensible person in public life has set up blog alerts for their own name.)
I say paw and pour (and pore) very slightly differently from each other, but poor as two syllables. I used to have an English boyfriend who used to “correct” me on this Welsh pronunciation which made me stubborn about it such that I have stuck to it even while unconsciously switching to RP on all kinds of other words. (I now quite naturally pronounce “ears” and “years” differently, for instance.)