Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the ...

Road signs in Wales are bilingual. But somebody making those signs apparently does not speak Welsh. The person needed the Welsh translation. And emailed a request to an interpreter. Some kind of ...

Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political allegory inspired by the Russian Revolution, is set in north-west Wales in the ...