Swansea

[ swon-see, -zee ]

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Official_name City and County of Swansea. a seaport in southern Wales.
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Swansea

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a port in S Wales, in Swansea county on an inlet of the Bristol Channel ( Swansea Bay ); a metallurgical and oil-refining centre; university (1920). Pop: 169 880 (2001)
a county of S Wales on the Bristol Channel, created in 1996 from part of West Glamorgan: includes the Swansea conurbation and the Gower peninsula. Administrative centre: Swansea. Pop: 224 600 (2003 est). Area: 378 sq km (146 sq miles)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Swansea¹

From Old Norse Sveinsey “Sweyn's Island, Sweyn's Inlet,” the name of a Viking trading post founded by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard (960?–1014)

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"There are just not enough examiners to go around," said Elwyn Marfell-Jones, 60, principal instructor of Auto Learners driving school in Swansea.

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Lloyd pleaded guilty to gross negligence manslaughter and was sentenced during a two-day hearing at Swansea Crown Court earlier this week.

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Felton, of Penyrheol Road, Gorseinon, Swansea, was sentenced to two years and four months on Friday and Judge Paul Thomas KC said he suspected a head teacher attacking his deputy was "entirely without precedent".

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Judge Paul Thomas KC told Swansea Crown Court he was imposing the order not as punishment, but for "ongoing, probably lifelong, medical help".

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"I started going around, like, Swansea, Port Talbot, Cardiff and Newport, looking for any little bit of architecture that I could find that might pass as a little bit Americana," he said.

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swan's-down swanskin

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