Open downloadable pdf file:Tom_Bawcocks_Eve Dialect Terms: Morgy – Dog Fish Braa (braav) – very / a lot of Lances – Sand Eels Scad – Horse Mackerel Star Gazey Pie – Fish Pie with heads thrusting out through the pastry. Fermaads – a pilchard, sometimes but not always smoked or cured.
Merv Davey- 31 March 2020
Open downloadable pdf file:The_Keenly_Lode Dialect Terms: Captain – ie mine captain – expression used in Cornwall for the mine manager. Keenly lode – Cornish dialect for a good ore bearing lode. Brave – in Cornish dialect usually means big. Bal – Cornish for mine. Whim – a windlass type of
- Merv Davey
- 31 March 2020
Begone From the Window was published in the Old Cornwall Journal in 1927 from the singing of Jim Thomas.
- Merv Davey
- 31 March 2020
Open downloadable pdf file: Ha_My_Ow_Mos Notes (1) Tonkin’s Spelling, (2) Morton Nance’s Spelling, (3) Modern Standard Written Form. Literal English Translation: As I was going out – On a blue / green downs, -I heard the sound of little fishes – But I found one great fish with nine tails, All the
- Merv Davey
- 29 March 2020
Open downloadable pdf file: Morvah_Fair Dialect Terms Balch Rope Heppen-Stock: A stone block rather like the old milk churn plats still found at old farmsteads. But were used for mounting one’s horse. Troachin: To walk slowly The version of the lyrics for
- Merv Davey
- 29 March 2020