South Wales has a wonderful set of slangwords that may or may not have some connection to the welsh language.

My favourite is 'cwch' (the 'w' pronounced as 'oo in 'hook' in Southern accent). Cwch is a noun and verb and is a cuddle, but somehow more. You can cwch, be cwched, cwch together or have a cwch.

The cwch is also a handy little hidey-hole, such as under the stairs. And when you want to send the dog to bed, you order: 'Go, cwch!'

Mitching is bunking off school.When mitching you go 'on the mitch'

Dwti (dootee[same w as in cwch]) means small and a dwt is something or someone small.

My Cariad Peter, like Dylan Thomas is 'tall for a Welshman' - a bit like the smallest giant in 'Popeye'! We joke that he's my 'Dwti Dom'.

Twti is to crouch down. I assume that it may connected to dwt as you make yourself small.

And the Welsh for a b*d translates as 'child of the hedgerows' - Much more poetic, but harder to shout at the ref!

And today I celebrated the anniversary of a Roman martyr with a cwch from my Dwti Dom.