[{"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "but who is the smallest of us all?"}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "We thought it was us, the Welsh"}, {"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "\u2018appendage\u2019, some relic or other"}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "although miniscule on any map."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Welsh is the only language you learn"}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "said one spin doctor or the journalist:"}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "\u2018this useless language\u2019, though she could not sound"}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "even a syllable from her small world."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "are afoot, and we are with them"}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "a feast, a dwelling, a plenitude ;"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "and we, like them, shy away"}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "After all, we Welsh were called strangers"}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "once by our next door neighbours,"}, {"text_idx": "#000029", "text": "so we understand those on the move,"}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "mumbling without the warmth of their mother tongue;"}, {"text_idx": "#000034", "text": "small, small, the smallest nebbish:"}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "to the whisper of the tiniest tribes and nations."}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "Before slipping back to their huge world,"}, {"text_idx": "#000038", "text": "Nebbish\u2014Yiddish for poor thing; in Welsh neb- means nobody and \u2018ach\u2019 lineage or \u2018relation\u2019.\nBach in Welsh is also used as a term for \u2018 dear\u2019.\nThe \u2018 Welsh\u2019 is a name bestowed on us by the English and derived from the Anglo \u2013Saxon wilisc and morphed into Welsh\u2014meaning foreigner / stranger."}]