Y Farteg

Many will remember this story from last year, where in the Welsh village of Varteg, which is in the Welsh county of Torfaen there had been a plan to use the Welsh form of the village name, 'Y Farteg'. This sent many anti-Welsh language bigots off on one and the plan to change the name has now been abandoned.

At the time Sioned Jones, 42, who lives in the village near Pontypool, south Wales, said: 'Just imagine how embarrassing it will be to have the word "fart" in your village's name - never mind being followed by "egg".

This is coming from a person called Sioned, which is the Welsh form of Janet and is not pronounced See-On-Ed it is pronouced SHON-ed. No doubt Sioned will have, at some point in her life had to explain to someone how to pronounce her name. Yet she is mortified at the prospect of having to explain to someone how to pronounce the name of her village.

NIMBYwch yn ofalus