Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen canal, May 2009.

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@catherinewright4520 10 жыл бұрын

it is just over 5 foot deep. The path way is canter levered so with the water running under the pathway it would be very difficult to climb out and you would indeed have to wade the entire trough to get out onto the embankment, lovely vid by the way ;D

@leemorgan8478 10 жыл бұрын

Wales is so beautiful .

@danlefou 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I've got a bit smoother since this early experimental job. :-) The depth of water varies, of course, but measuring off photos I took in the Spring, it was about 54 inches, the top of the trough being nine inches above water level. A friend of my parents used to cycle across the aqueduct until one night she fell in. Unable to climb out, she had to wheel her bike in the water all the way to the end of the trough.

@marko9912 3 жыл бұрын

You don't pronounce the double L as a TH. Double L is double L. If non Welsh speaking people can't do the double L then one L is fine. Don't change it to something else.

@danlefou 3 жыл бұрын

@@marko9912 Yes, but what does "L aspirate" mean to most people? How many phoneticists do you think there are in the general population? Many, many locals say "THL" or "LTH" depending on position in the word, (NOT just "TH" as you appear to think I wrote) on their way to learning the correct pronunciation. Heck, my bilingual Nain (grandmother), Welsh to her chromosomes, did so all her life! My mother learned the right pronunciation at school. How would *you* transliterate "Ll" for English speakers? Using a single "L" sounds awful to Welsh ears!

@marko9912 3 жыл бұрын

@@danlefou You don't change double L to a TH, that's absolutely ridiculous, and don't tell me how to speak my own language.

@danlefou 3 жыл бұрын

@@marko9912 My language too. I live near Pontcysyllte, and can only speak from experience. You still haven't suggested how *you* would approximate the sound in print for non-Welsh speakers, to whom we at least owe the information that it is not pronounced as a single "L". Some are actually interested in learning the correct sound...

@marko9912 3 жыл бұрын

@@danlefou I'd rather hear Pontcysyltay than some randomly made up nonsense like Pontcysythe or whatever you've come up with over there. At least it recognises the requirement of the letter L instead of bastardising it to that extent. Introduce the TH instead and there's no hope anyone ever making an effort to get it right is there. Nothing different to how English people have magically created a CL instead of LL. Clandudno. I suppose you'd encourage this, judging your current standards. Landudno is fine, for pallets not designed to tackle the Welsh intricacies.Or how about Thandudno? Hahaha

@IntimateCabaret 15 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you. Do you happen to know how deep the water in the trough is?

@danlefou 9 жыл бұрын

RichardGMoss Sorry I missed your question. The crossing protocol with typical traffic density is usually first come first served, but the canal at the southern end is wider as far as Fron, so boats coming north can wait there and cross in convoy if it's busy. A southbound boat or convoy has priority because there is less room to park at the northern end. Common sense usually works!