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Nathan Bevan

Asda mistakenly offers customers free beer in Welsh after bilingual blunder

We all love to save money, and a cold drink at the end of a hard day's work usually doesn't go amiss either.

So, with a warm Bank Holiday Easter weekend forecast, shoppers at Asda in Cwmbran must have thought they were quids in when they saw a bilingual sign in store offering 'free alcohol'.

Sadly though, it was simply a case of the translators having dropped a clanger with Welsh language, using 'Alcohol am ddim' (free alcohol') as opposed to 'di-alcohol', meaning 'alcohol-free' beer.

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And the slip-up certainly caught the eye of more than a few customers.

Guto Aaron, like many, tweeted, "Get yourself to Asda, according to their dodgy Welsh translations they are giving away free alcohol!

"If you can read the Welsh in that dark font that is."

And it's not the first time the supermarket chain has got it wrong.

Welsh translation fail

In 2012 it was left red faced after it used Scottish Gaelic instead of Welsh for a bilingual sign at a store in Cardiff .

The parking notice for drivers arriving at the firm's Coryton branch left many baffled because, rather than consisting of English and Welsh, it contained a mix of English and Scottish Gaelic, with the phrase 'disabled parking only' translated as 'parcadh chiorramach a-mhain'. 

Asda also made the same mistake two years later at a store in Morriston, Swansea, with Scottish Gaelic once again being used instead of Welsh.

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