The adjacent quotation is from Gwyn Thomas (1913–1981), the Anglo-Welsh novelist and playwright, who fulminated against the revival of Catalan with a force which is scarcely comprehensible, despite the fact that Spanish, or perhaps one should say Castilian, was his preferred choice of language both to learn at school and at Oxford, and later to teach. The force of his invective becomes explicable however when one remembers that he lived at a time when the Welsh language was starting to be just the sort of ‘first-class nuisance’ which he chided Catalan for being, and was about to commence a similar sort of revival.