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- "Dw i eisiau dy feiro di."
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It's from the inventor, László Bíró who invented the ballpoint pen. In British English it became the generic term for a ballpoint pen. Actually the picture that was shown when the word was introduced was a fountain pen, so that may be adding to the confusion. That would be a "ysgrifbin" or just "pen" and a ballpoint pen is a "beiro".
JeffA2
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Thanks for the information. I must have tested out of the section where it was introduced, or I probably would have recognized it when it came up again.
JeffA2
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Yeah, I guess that must be it. Google was not actually very helpful on this one. Since it was introduced in "Family" I thought it must be some slangy name for some form of relative, but probably not.