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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