Article: Sign language blunders cause more red faces; `Translations' are utter nonsense.(News)

Byline: Hywel Trewyn

IT'S happened again - Welsh language signs on our streets that make no sense at all.

Following this week's Daily Post story about fast-food giant McDonald's turning the Welsh language into ``gibberish,'' more dyslexic disasters have been discovered.

And this time red-faced National Assembly and council officials are pleading guilty.

The road to Welsh ruin is on the A55 Expressway. A sign in English reads: ``When tunnel is closed follow Betws-y-Coed.''

Whoever wrote the sign in Welsh had his mind on other things. Instead of using the word ``dilynwch'', for ``follow'', he used ``dylinwch''. Several Post ...

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