Should you venture your way through Wales (an experience I hope many of the 'W elsh Americans' on this list will have sometime), you will come across many s igns to towns in English when there is a perfectly good (and older) Welsh nam e for the town. You will, from time to time, find them sprayed over with a re d symbol, something like a wavy arrow. This is the symbol of 'Cymdeithas yr I aith'[The Society of the Language], a group set up to promote the Welsh langu age and to defend its rights. They are largely ignored. Please remember that the most Welsh people do not s peak Welsh, and to be perfectly honest, don't care. There was a recent furore about the Welsh language becoming compulsory in Welsh schools - I missed it on the news, but I think many people didn't want it taught. Sometimes I feel similar to the Native Americans in America, except that it's my own countryme n who mock my language. It is strange that the Scots, who are more blatantly nationalistic and regard themselves completely above and apart from the rest of Britain, have all but lost their language, Gaelic. Many feel Scots [a dialect of English] to be th eir national language. How sad. They also get a lot more attention than us in England. This is why I have the utmost respect for the learners of Welsh in America. T o persevere in a difficult language where many who live in the country actual ly feel negatively towards it. I hope your efforts are rewarded. Rant ends he re. Gyda llaw, oes unrywun yn gwybod unryw llyfrau barddoniaeth sy'n cael eu wert hu ar hyn o bryd yng Nghymru? 'Dw i'n edrych am ryw casgliad fel 'Palgraves G olden Treasury' yng Nghymraeg. Diolch. William Wright wdw@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk http://www-2nd-cs.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wdw/Afalonrhithwir.html