Cornish

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Jul 16 1998 - 07:01:09 EDT


Ar 08:46 -0700 1998-07-15, scríobh John H. Jenkins:

>Well, maybe I actually just meant "Englishmen and Americans." The Irish
>are so much more reasonable than either....

You haven't been to Drumcree lately. :-(

>(And I thought Cornish had died out.)

It did. But it was successfully revived in the present century. I know
children who can speak and dream in fluent Cornish. Cornish speakers are
not numerous, but there _are_ Cornish speakers.

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