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I recently logged on to the web site of NICE, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, in order to check their official guidelines for treating hypertension. I was delighted to see that they offer the option of reading these in either English or Cymraeg. The sceptics among you might snort at this choice, for who in Wales could possibly be interested in such guidelines and incapable of reading them in English? The question, of course, misses the point. The Cymraeg version is there not for utilitarian purposes. It is there in