Sunday 20th April, 2008

Cornish Internet Terminology

How come the last monoglot speaker of Cornish (Dolly Pentreath) died in 1777 and yet they have words for website (gwiasva) , internet (kesroesweyth) and stockings (lodrigow)?

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