_Consonants in Welsh._--It has often been asserted that the Welsh language
is remarkable for the number of its consonants. Can any of your readers
acquainted with that language inform me whether there is a larger
proportion of consonants in Welsh than in English? Messrs. Chambers, in a
recent number of their _Repository_, say:
"On the road to Merthyr, we heard a drunken Welshman swear; oh for
words to describe the effect! His mouth seemed full of consonants,
which cracked and cracked, and ground and exploded, in an extraordinary
way," &c.
Is this a true representation of the case?