Complete with one word only in each space.

THE WELSH

When it (01)..... to violent nationalism, the Welsh are not in the (02)..... league as the Basques or the Northern Irish, but they can be bad (03)...... The Welsh do have a distinct nationality, (04)..... a language and literature of their own. Indeed, they have their own cultural festival, with music and singing, (05)..... an Eisteddfod, which dates back to 1176. The Eisteddfod forms (06)..... of the Gorsedd, or assembly, founded many centuries before the Christian era. At the Eisteddfod, the poets, or bards, wear long white, flowing robes, and (07)..... themselves very seriously.

(08)..... Brittany, Wales is rather isolated. It is a mountainous lump (09)..... England and the Irish Sea. (10)..... it is isolated, and because it contains little (11)..... stealing, the place has been (12)..... to its own devices, so that half a million people (13)..... speak the ancient Welsh language. (14)....., the proportion of the population who speak Welsh has fallen (15)..... 1960 from about 30 per cent to about 20 per cent.

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