The other day, a group of London based Globetrotters started talking about slang and direct translations from one language into another. This lead to Olwen, a Welsh language student, telling one of us of a Welsh colloquialism that made us laugh.

In Welsh, the word Microwave becomes a microdion, and an oven in Welsh slang is “Popty.” So guess what’s a microwave?

It’s a “Popty Ping”