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This 7th of May, 2026, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you're encouraged to speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organisational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language and dialects) are more than welcome!

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

alternatively

זאָל דזשיי די ווענס שטיצן דײַן צוועק.

zol dzhey di vens shtitsn dayn tsvek.

Public transit, Earth

So I was researching on medieval music and I found the sassiest ode to lady parts (here sung by The Mediaeval Baebes). The original text is in ancient welsh and I found out it’s a great poem by Gwerful Mechain called Cywydd y Cedor (The female genitals or ode to pubic hair). I found it to interesting, especially because written by a woman.

Sawden awdl, sidan ydiw  Sêm fach, len ar gont wen wiw  Lleiniau mewn man ymannerch  Y llwyn sur, llawn yw o serch  Fforest falch iawn, ddawn ddifrog  Ffris ffraill, ffwrwr dwygaill deg  Breisglwyn merch, drud annerch dro  Berth addwyn, Duw’n borth iddo

translation:

Sultan of an ode, it is silk, little seam, curtain on a fine bright cunt, flaps in a place of greeting, the sour grove, it is full of love, very proud forest, faultless gift, tender frieze, fur of a fine pair of testicles, a girl’s thick grove, circle of precious greeting, lovely bush, God save it.

The full poem features Gwerful reading male bards to filth for not describing the vulva when they’re so happy to describe every other part of women’s bodies.

She was great! She was about in the late 1300s/early 1400s. It was the style of the time for bards to write Ymrysonau, debates held by writing poems in response to each other’s work, which would often become highly entertaining chains of “So’s your mam” “So’s your FACE” but written in beautiful cynghanedd. Gwerful did this a lot, and in particular with Dafydd Llwyd (lovely lad, Welsh Nash) and Ieuan Dyfi (an appalling misogynist who was in jail multiple times for adultery).

As well as Cywydd y Cedor, her famous stuff includes an Ymryson with Ieuan Dyfi. He wrote a poem called Anni Goch which was, in fact, a 3 page ‘welcome to my twisted mind’ hate-filled screed about how women have been false bitches and whores throughout all of history, starting with Mary Magdalena (not Eve, interestingly). FUN FACT: when he was convicted of adultery it was with a woman called Anni. WONDER IF HE WAS DICK-HURT ABOUT SOMETHING.

And Gwerful was having NONE of it, and wrote “I Ateb Ieuan Dyfi am gywydd Anni Goch”. It’s straight up a feminist treatise. It tells us she was very well educated for a woman of the time, too, because her references are very classical. She lists all the good women that men like Ieuan erase, except there’s something interesting about all of them and the way they each wield power over men - the Sibylline Oracle, for example. But, she doesn’t include Mary. We think it’s because he didn’t include Eve, so she was making a point that she was going an eye for an eye.

Anyway, her other famous surviving piece is an incredibly raw piece about domestic violence. No idea if it was also about Ieuan Dyfi or not.