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I am a resident of "Torfaen County Borough" in the historical county of Monmouthshire. I attended Welsh Medium education schools in Cwmbran and later Pontypool. I have rarely used the language since, and can barely speak it anymore, though I can pronounce Sir Fynwy, most people I know do not speak Welsh and cannot pronounce Mynwy/Sir Fynwy correctly as it is. People won't start magically speaking Welsh because you've renamed Monmouthshire. As for Torfaen, I don't need to get started, the Afon Llwyd was never called Tor-faen, the name was applied in the 1980s, very few records of that name in the Welsh Newspaper Archive beyond scant references to a demolished street near the river in Pontypool during the Victorian era.

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