"Dw i'n gweithio yn Amwythig."

Translation: I work in Shrewsbury.

[timelord4213]

This reminds me of Cadfael

[kdb119]

It would be amusing to think there was a similar pronunciation debate with Amwythig as the Shrow.../Shrew... divide with Shrewsbury.

[mizinamo]

Perhaps you could argue about whether the "w" is consonantal or not :)

"Am-wy-thig" (consonantal W, vocalic Y) or "A-mwy-thig" (vocalic W + vocalic Y diphthong)

[brisa_picerem]

Why isn't it "dw i'n gweithio mewn Amwythig"? Is yn specifically for proper nouns?

[mizinamo]

It's more that mewn is used for indefinite nouns, i.e. where you would say "in a ..." (e.g. mewn siop "in a shop").

But proper nouns are definite pretty much by definition (there's only one Shrewsbury).

You would also use yn with a common noun that is definite, e.g. "in the school (= the one that we had been talking about earlier)" as opposed to "in a school (= that had not been mentioned before)".

[brisa_picerem]

Thank you!