Deep in the middle of studying my vocabulary for tomorrow's class, this near-42 year old new student was curious about how many people are studying Medieval or even Modern Welsh in the world. I had learned some very strained pronunciations in the Gymanfa Ganu culture of my home community of Gomer, Ohio, but that was only an annual straining, and not a steady exercise. I didn't even know one could study Welsh until I asked the right questions in the right quarters and found Gareth Morgan in the Classics Department at the University of Texas in Austin. Also, for those on the Welsh-L, please keep some of the English on the messages, just to help those of us who are new stumblers in the discipline. I look forward with some trepidation to my coming visit to Aberyswyth in July and pray that I won't seem the total twit I'll be feeling starting at 9 am CST tomorrow. As ever, M. Richard Myers III PS Thanks to those who said I still should go over and check out Wales. I didn't mean to seem a coward, but I don't want to help a repressive system, either. No guts, no glory, but I'm still deciphering those mutations and lenitions. Onward through the fog!