Bilingual Interlude

22nd July 1960, Page 30

22nd July 1960

Page 30

Page 30, 22nd July 1960 — Bilingual Interlude

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AANCHESTER seems far away, and London still farther, LIU when a traffic court witness hesitantly says: "It is so difficult to explain in the English."

This sometimes happens during the North Wales tours of the North Western Licensing Authority, but always there is a Welsh-speaking member of his staff in the offing. At Caernarvon, last week, Mr. J. H. Hughes, enforcement officer at Bangor, stepped in to form the link between the two civilizations —the basically English civil service and those North Wales operators whose life is spent speaking and thinking in their native tongue.

I might add that most of the English find difficulty in making themselves plain in their mother tongue.