re: #237 yma o hyd

Doesn’t say if the stress is on the first or second syllable …
But if its imitating Welsh, its gotta be the second, i assume, so we might say:

There was a young man from Qwghlm
who loved playing on his drum.
One night he had three!
It was lovely to see
that young man playing his drum.

Good.

If you read the books mentioned (er, that’s over 4000 pages in 4 books), you’ll see that Stephenson is not imitating the welsh so much as satirizing them, very funny stuff without being nasty.