<p>Historical Place Names</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 8 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:02, 8 November 2016

(Translated)

Paul Davies is, of course, talking about what I mentioned earlier about the work of the commissioner, which is something I welcome. As someone who lives in a town where there are huge problems with some streets because of the fact that the names of the streets have been Welsh for decades, then they’ve been translated very poorly into English and nobody now knows where they live. There are several examples in Bridgend where the Welsh names for roads have been misspelled or have been misinterpreted and mistranslated too. So, nobody knows where they are now. So, it is important because there are some people who can’t receive credit as a result of that, and the sat navs don’t work either. But it shows how important this issue is to ensure that we have one name in the Welsh language that is considered as the official name, where that names has been a historic name over the decades and centuries.