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A mum said was shocked when she was told to stop speaking “foreign muck” to her one-year-old daughter but was actually speaking Welsh… in Wales.

Elin Jones, who lives in Lampeter , was speaking to daughter Elena while out shopping on Saturday, explaining to her about the food that was on the shelves.

To her shock, a customer at the local store in Ceredigion confronted her, and mother-of-three Elin tweeted:

Speaking to WalesOnline, Elin explained how she corrected the woman.

“I think I was pretty calm about the situation to be honest.

“I said to her ‘I think you are misunderstood – I am speaking Welsh to my children’.

“But she turned on her heels and walked away. She didn’t even try and justify what she had said.

“Wales and the UK is a multicultural country and I love that about it in general and we should be far more accepting.”

Elin, 32, works in a local pub and added: “Most people usually recognise that it’s Welsh, particularly when I’m in Wales.

“But maybe because I don’t sound Welsh when I am speaking it I have had comments from people saying ‘go back to your own country’, which is very funny because I am from Aberystwyth.”

Elin, a Plaid Cymru town councillor, and whose husband does not speak Welsh, is bringing up her children in a bilingual household.

She added: “Our home is bilingual and the children learn it in school too. I’m a first-generation Welsh speaker as my grandparents are from the London area.

“I have always been in Welsh education and they are always really proud that I speak Welsh. I wanted to follow that through in my children too.”

Since her post on Saturday, Elin’s comment has had almost 2,000 retweets and over 3,500 likes.

“It’s gone a bit ridiculous to be honest. I put it on Twitter last night and I checked my account this morning and was a bit shocked!

“It’s in a good way though, we should be promoting tolerance towards all.”