LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.12.03 (10) [E]

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 A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
 L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic
               V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: Thomas Byro <thbyro at earthlink.net>
Subject: LL-L "Counting" 2002.12.03 (08) [E]

To Sandy:

Is Cornish still a living language?  I should mention that I had dinner with
a Canadian steelmaker , Syd Melbourne of Dofasco Steel in Montreal about 10
years ago, when he mentioned a most peculiar experience.  He and his friends
landed by boat on an island in the Chesepeake Bay where they encountered a
population that spoke a form of English that no  one could understand.
After a while though, it began to sound familiar.  It then came to him.  He
had last heard this language while spending his summers in the Cornish
countryside as a young child.  Then he began to understand the language a
bit. Now he described the language as a form of English but is it possible
that this population actually spoke the Keltic Cornish language?

Tom Byro

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