Let’s have some respect for Llanystumdwy!

How about a bit more respect for one of Wales’ most famous villages!

Llanystumdwy will forever be remembered as the North Wales village where David Lloyd George (1863-1945), the last Liberal Party leader to be British Prime Minister, was brought up in and lived until he was 16.

He died in the village at the age of 82 on 26 March 1945, with his wife Frances and daughter Megan at his bedside. Four days later, he was buried beside the river Dwyfor in Llanystumdwy.

The village, which lies between Criccieth and Pwllheli at the point where the A497 crosses Afon Dwyfor, is also renowned for housing the former headquarters of the celebrated Cadwalader’s Ice Cream.

Lloyd George’s former residence Tŷ Newydd is now home to the National Writing Centre of Wales and of course there is CPD Llanystumdwy, a football club which plays in tier 4 of the Welsh football pyramid and won the NWCFA Intermediate Challenge Cup in 2015-16.

While on first viewing, the pronunciation of the village name may present a bit of a hurdle to a non-Welsh speaker, it can be broken down nicely and learned very quickly.

However, on their live cup draws, the FAW continually pronounce the village team as LLANYSTMEEDUWY.

No criticism of the presenter, Gabriella Dukes, who hails from Swansea and therefore may not be familiar with Llanystumdwy.

However, you might have thought one of the production team would have picked this up by now and put her right.

Then again, the same live draw specialists FAW RedWall+ service used to pronounce Pwllheli as PWLL-WELLY. An easier name to pronounce than Llanystumdwy, but still uttered wrong many times in the past.

Wherever there is any doubt over pronunciation, presenters should be fully briefed by the production team as to the correct way of saying the place involved.

Red Wall+ is a representative of Wales and does a fine job, but should be fully up to speed with how every place name in our nation should be read out.

Poor Llanystumdwy has not only been mispronounced yet again this week, it has also been relocated by the mighty Wrexham AFC!

In revealing their women’s team has drawn Llanystumdwy away in the Bute Energy Welsh Cup, its website claimed in a headline the Red Dragons will travel to WEST Wales in the next round.

Llanystumdwy can be described as being on the Llŷn Peninsula, in North West Wales, Gwynedd or even the traditional county of Caernarfonshire, but definitely NOT West Wales, as Wrexham’s article suggests.

While we appreciate Wrexham now has far heavier subjects dominating its priorities, such as Hollywood owners, Football League One, TV documentaries and the Adran Premier, their women’s side played at grassroots level not so long ago, so correct location calls on opponents’ names is important too.

People may accuse this article of being somewhat pedantic, but we don’t believe so. This is Wales and all cities, towns and villages have the right to be pronounced or described geographically correctly in the public domain.