Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod.

[Gob]

An 81-year-old man from Somerset who had a stroke woke up speaking Welsh.

Alun Morgan was taken ill while he was at his home in Bath. A few days later, he was speaking the language he had not spoken since childhood.

"This was strange because I'd not lived in Wales since I was evacuated there during the war," he said.

Mr Morgan was diagnosed with aphasia, a condition which affects a person's ability to communicate.

It can affect stroke survivors in different ways, from speaking and reading to writing and understanding.

Mr Morgan's wife Yvonne had rushed him to hospital when she noticed he was not responding to anything.

He said: "I don't remember much of the first four days.

"Then, when I did speak, I was talking away in Welsh.

"Fortunately my wife was there and knew what I was saying and she had to translate it all. I'd completely forgotten English.

"Then, about two or three days later, back came all the English, so I don't know where that had hidden."

Mr Morgan said he had spoken "a bit of both" languages as a child.

"We were London Welsh and I learned a bit of Welsh when I was in London. Then, when I was evacuated to Wales during the war, we spoke it virtually all the time because my aunt didn't speak much English, so I had to pick it up very quickly."

[Rick]

I know some folks that speak Welsh every time they drink...

[Crackpot]

No they're just drunk.....

[Rick]

Well there ya have it, that explains the whole Welsh language thang...