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title: '''Chwi a Wyddoch Fwy na Phobl Ereill'' [You Know More Than Other People] (Welsh-language poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-chwi-a-wyddoch-fwy-na-phobl-ereill-welsh-1939/
description: Bold red and white lettering on black bars reads 'CHWI a wyddoch fwy na phobl ereill' ('You know more than other people').
section: Collection
---

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[!['Chwi a Wyddoch Fwy na Phobl Ereill' \[You Know More Than Other People\], 1939 UK poster: Bold red and white lettering on black](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-chwi-a-wyddoch-fwy-na-phobl-ereill-welsh-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-chwi-a-wyddoch-fwy-na-phobl-ereill-welsh-1939.jpg)

# 'Chwi a Wyddoch Fwy na Phobl Ereill' [You Know More Than Other People] (Welsh-language poster)

Bold red and white lettering on black bars reads 'CHWI a wyddoch fwy na phobl ereill' ('You know more than other people'), over a blue panel of Welsh text warning that a few careless words can give the enemy information and cost lives. The tell is the lives-lost consequence; the Welsh text is a language version of an English careless-talk poster.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Welsh) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CHWI
A WYDDOCH FWY
NA PHOBL
EREILL

Yr ydych mewn safle o ymddiried.
Peidiwch bradychu'r bechgyn sy'n
brwydro.

Gall ychydig o eiriau diofal
roddi gwybod i'r gelyn am
rywbeth a pheri i ni golli
bywydau.

Yn anad dim byddwch yn ochelgar
yn yr hyn a ddywedwch wrth
ddieithriaid ac ar gyhoedd.

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Greycaine Ltd., Watford and London. T 51-5664
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
YOU
KNOW MORE
THAN OTHER
PEOPLE

You are in a position of trust.
Do not betray the boys who are
fighting.

A few careless words can
give the enemy information about
something and cause us to lose
lives.

Above all, be cautious
in what you say to
strangers and in public.

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Greycaine Ltd., Watford and London. T 51-5664
```

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