I WAS interested in the letters regarding the introduction of Welsh language place names on signs in Herefordshire.

I read in a Welsh language dictionary the language we now call Welsh was the language of Britain, spoken from Glasgow to Cornwall.

Following the Saxon invasion the language was restricted to the area now called Wales and parts of Cornwall, with a similar language in Brittany.

I wondered why the Welsh Language Society, while actively promoting the retention and use of the language, did not promote the language throughout its former territory after all, since Saxon times, far more people with Celtic ancestry have come out of Wales than were ever driven there.

I expect there are many interested in language classes, given the opportunity unless the language was only promoted in Wales as a tool to separation.

I would be pleased to see signs bearing names in both modern English and the (modern) old British language which would enrich us and be good for the language and Britain.

D HANCOCK,

Tupsley, Hereford.