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It's just that letters in the Welsh alphabet have different quantities to letters in the English alphabet. Meaning that although they look the same, they are in fact pronounced differently. The Welsh have a whole language like this; it's not something they do just to wind the English up (although they've thought about it ;)).
Letters are just symbols to signify a sound, a sort of code. You need to know which code you are using when you want to pronounce letters. The same people that have problems with Welsh have no trouble understanding the same principle in French (i.e. that Jean = zhon not jeen)...So it must just be laziness.

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And you can quote me on that.