Joseph Davies (? – 1831?) was a

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solicitor and magazine publisher. He was originally from the

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area, but trained as a solicitor and took up a position with a firm in

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. He was the founding editor of the monthly periodical ''Y Brud a Sylwydd'', eight editions of which were published between January and August 1828. He invented a large number of novel

words that he thought were needed to modernise the language.

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