text:  Camden the antiquary has preserved a tradition that "certain Brittaines" (Britons) going over into Armorica and taking wives from among the people of Normandy "_did cut out their tongues_ " through fear that when they should become mothers they might corrupt the Welsh tongue of the children by teaching them that foreign language! The love of their own tongue thus appears to be of very old standing if we are to believe this agreeable proof of it