When I speak Welsh sometimes or address a meeting that would otherwise be entirely in English, there are some individuals who may complain, particularly online later: 'Oh Dai, leave it go, lighten up, always banging on in Welsh, you can speak English.' But in evaluating our history as a nation and the history of the Welsh language, which encompasses centuries of oppression and bloodletting, such as the wars fought, the Act of Union 1536 that banned the use of the Welsh language in any public post for over four centuries, the Merthyr rising, the Chartists and the Rebecca riots in Victorian times, all co-ordinated and arranged through the medium of Welsh. That led to brad y llyfrau gleision, the treachery of the blue books, and abolished the use of the Welsh language from Welsh schools entirely, facing the Welsh Not and the threat of the use of the cane. My own grandfather and his generation suffered the cane for insisting on using the Welsh language in school over a century ago. He would be proud, I'm sure, to hear his grandson's generation addressing his nation's Parliament in that very same language today without facing corporal punishment. So, let it go? No, I don't think so.