THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
Sir,-I read with interest an article in a recent Listener entitled "Bad Luck for a Welshman". The young man, Cyril Lewis, has gained for himself a reputation that Welshmen all the world over are proud of.’ We pray that he will be spared after this war is over to continue his career as a singer and receive all the laurels he is entitled to. But what surprised me was that his sister, Mrs. Presley, of Auckland, in excusing her brother for not being able to speak the National tongue, said that the Welsh language is hardly more commonly spoken than is Gaelic in Scotland. I don’t know what part of Wales Mrs. ‘Presley comes from. There are some parts of Wales
such as Pembrokeshire and the border towns between England and Wales where English predominates. But it would be quite safe to say that 60% of the people in Wales can and do speak the Welsh language. If you took a ‘census of the churches in Wales (or chapels as we call them) you would find that eight out of every ten still conduct their services in the Welsh language. The Natiorfal Eisteddfod, which commands. an attendance of. 20,000 people, is conducted entirely in Welsh. I write this merely to correct a wrong impression which may be conveyed to your readers.
WELSHMAN
(Hastings).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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226THE WELSH LANGUAGE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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