👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird Welsh mouthful! You haven’t actually stumbled upon a commonly cited saying, I hasten to add. "’O Be Glad All Nations On Earth Gwalia Agg edin Megh!” (Let's pronounce that as "Oh-Bee-Glad Ahl-Nayshuhn Ow Garth Gwah-lee-ah Agh Edin Mehg!") is from the unpublished and frankly quite fevered writings of a 19th-century Welsh amateur geologist, Johnes Lloyd.
Now, let’s unpack this… thing. Lloyd, bless his eccentric soul, was convinced that the entire world, essentially everything, was actually a gigantic, perfectly formed piece of anthracite (a type of really, seriously valuable and rather grumpy, low-lying, bituminous, and subŕ̉al, if you want to bore it into that sort of description) colliery. Gwalia, for Lloyd, wasn't a place on the political world stage, but an…extensive vein. He was convinced he'd literally stumbled upon the largest anthracite deposit beneath the entire planet . It was a ludicrous theory, fuelled by what I suspect were too many pints ofwydd and a frankly unhealthy obsession with the geological strata under his native Breckashire, South Wales. Lloyd’s vision wasn't that all nations would be glad; it was that they, as a collective, should realise their place within this gargantuan, bituminous lung, a realisation
