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Cornish
Cornish language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages . Bibliography: See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974).... Read more |
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William Cornish
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Brythonic
Brythonic denoting, relating to, or belonging to the southern group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. They were spoken in Britain before and during the Roman occupation, surviving as Welsh and Cornish after the Anglo-Saxon invasions, and being taken to Brittany by... Read more |
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William Johnson Cory
William Johnson Cory 1823-92, English poet and classicist. He was assistant master at Eton from 1845 to 1872. His verse, of which Ionica (1858) is the best known, consists primarily of imitations and translations of the Greek and Latin poets. Bibliography: See his Letters and Journals (ed. by F.... Read more |
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Penzance
Penzance , town (1991 pop. 18,501), Cornwall, SW England, at the head of Mounts Bay. Penzance is a resort and a port for the Scilly Islands . It also has flour mills. Penzance Library houses a notable Cornish collection. The town was sacked by the Spanish in 1595 and until the 18th cent. was... Read more |
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Isolde
Isolde ♀ The name of the tragic mistress of Tristan in the Arthurian romances. There are several versions of the story. The main features are that the beautiful Isolde, an Irish princess, is betrothed to the aged King Mark of Cornwall. However, through accidentally drinking a magic potion,... Read more |
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diocese of Saint Germans
St Germans, diocese of. Athelstan created this specifically Cornish see by dividing the see of Crediton in 931, though the Celtic church, Canterbury, and Crediton had in turn provided episcopal oversight for the region. Poverty enforced its reunion with Crediton in 1027. The combined see moved to... Read more |
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Car Wash
Car Wash BUSINESS PLAN THE DIRT BUSTER 11535 Cornish Blvd. Detroit, MI 46778 March 15, 1993 The Dirt Buster was designed by entrepreneurs wishing to provide a high quality car wash service in a virtually untapped market. Because new construction is... Read more |
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Demelza
Demelza ♀ Modern Cornish name, which has no history as a Celtic personal name but is derived from a place name in the parish of St Columb Major. The given name began to be used in the 1950s and was given a boost by the serialization on British television of the ‘Poldark’... Read more |
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Denzel
Denzel ♂ From the Cornish surname Denzell, a local name from a place in Cornwall. It came to be used as a given name in the Hollis family in the 16th century, when the Hollis family and the Denzell family became connected by marriage, and spread from there into more general use. It is borne... Read more |
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CORNISH
CORNISH. 1. The ancient Celtic language of Cornwall...Mousehole, died in 1777. 2. Also revived Cornish. The partly ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE administered by the Kesva Tavas Kernewek (Cornish Language Board), set up in 1967 ‘to promote... |
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Cornish Rounds
Cornish Rounds, remains of circular earth-works in Cornwall (particularly the western part) which are now known to have been used... |
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Cornwall
...between Padstow and Exeter (Isca). For Cornish people England is entered by crossing...in the Civil War, redoubtably though Cornish levies defended the crown within the county...Dumnonia (Britons), and the disused Cornish language may still be studied in Breton schools... |
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CELTIC LANGUAGES
...WELSH and Breton (which survive) and CORNISH, CUMBRIC, and perhaps Pictish (which...their name to their adopted country. Cornish and Manx are in limited use among local...before French. The last natural speaker of Cornish died in 1777 and of Manx in 1974. Welsh... |
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WEST COUNTRY
...because of its location and despite its Celtic background, distinctive and controversial CORNISH language, and dialect of English influenced by Cornish. The range of accents in the West Country extends from broad in the working class and in... |
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Trevithick, Richard
Trevithick, Richard (1771–1833). Cornish engineer and inventor whose genius did not extend to business...1808–9); a near-complete Thames tunnel (1809); a Cornish boiler and engine (1812); a portable agricultural engine... |
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regional novel
...regionalism in the 20th cent. is reflected in the popularity enjoyed by the Cornish novels of D. du Maurier, the Tyneside ones of Catherine Cookson, and the historical Cornish novels of Winston Graham (1909– ), whose Poldark series appeared... |
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china clay
...west England, and subsequently manufactured porcelain from Cornish china clay. The deposits of china clay in Cornwall and Devon...Staffordshire potters, who until the early nineteenth century used Cornish and Devonian kaolin almost exclusively in the production of... |
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Hawker, R. S.
...Morwenstow in Cornwall; much of his poetry was inspired by Cornish landscape and legend, and by the frequent shipwrecks off the dangerous...The Song of the Western Men’ (1825); based on an Old Cornish ballad, it has the refrain: ‘And shall Trelawney die... |
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poultry
...Island, Wyandotte and Plymouth Rock, are raised for meat and eggs. Others, such as White Plymouth Rock, Cornish and Rock Cornish, mainly supply meat. Species Gallus domesticus. Other forms of poultry are duck, goose, guinea fowl, and... |
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Cornish
Cornish •banish, clannish, mannish, Spanish, tannish, vanish •garnish, tarnish...finish, Finnish, thinnish •swinish •admonish, astonish, donnish •Cornish •brownish, clownish, townish •buffoonish, cartoonish, soonish •Hunnish... |
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Cornish, William
Cornish, William. See Cornyshe, William. |
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Cornish pasty
Cornish pasty See pasty. |
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Cornwall
...of its powerful Saxon neighbours. The Cornish language [Corn. Kernewek] is Brythonic...Corn. derowen; Bret. dervenn). Some Cornish names appear as glosses in early Latin...themselves began to be translated into Cornish as early as the 10th century, and mystery... |
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chough
...bird of the crow family, especially the red-legged or Cornish chough (sp. pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). Called An Balores in Cornish, the chough has become a symbol of resurgent Cornish cultural identity. In narratives outside Cornwall the... |
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piskie
...pisgie, pigsie, pixie, pixy. The Cornish name piskie was metathesized in Somerset and Devon to pixie and pigsie. Cornish and west of England fairy who haunts hills...pixilated’. The older, more genuinely Cornish conception envisages a wizened old... |
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Brythonic
...the southern group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. They were spoken in Britain before and during the Roman occupation, surviving as Welsh and Cornish after the Anglo-Saxon invasions, and being taken to Brittany... |
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balores
...The bird, usually named with the definite article, An Balores, is an emblem for Cornish cultural identity. R. Morton Nance wrote a play in the Cornish language titled An Balores (1932). The chough is also associated with King Arthur... |
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Launceston
...Colonel William Paterson, but renamed in 1826 after the Cornish birthplace of Philip Gidley King (1758–1808), the third governor...near the Site of the Church of St Stephen’ from a possible Cornish word lann ‘church’, the saint's name, and tūn. |
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Delabole
Delabole Cornwall. Deliou 1086 (DB), Delyou Bol 1284. The name of the Domesday manor Deliou (possibly from a Cornish word meaning ‘leaves’ and surviving as nearby Deli) with the later addition of Cornish pol ‘pit’ referring to the great slate quarry here. |
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chicken
...cuz he's chicken.See cowardly.Chickens and Other Ground Birds Chickens bantam brahma Cornish leghorn Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red Rock Cornish Sussex White Rock Wyandot Other Ground Birds black grouse blue grouse bobwhite capercaillie... |
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sandwich
...burrito California club calzone canapé chicken salad chilaquile chili dog chimichanga club Coney Island corn dog corned beef Cornish pasty crepe croissant croque madame croque monsieur Cuban cucumber Dagwood deviled ham eggplant parmigiana egg salad empanada... |
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bread
...challah chapati ciabatta cinnamon raisin bread cinnamon roll cob coburg coffee cake concha corn dodger corn pone cornbread Cornish split cottage loaf crepe crescent roll crispbread croissant crumpet dosa English muffin farmhouse bread ficelle (bread) flapjack... |
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meat
...Meat Types of Meatalligator antelope armadillo bear beaver beefalo bison boar buffalo caiman capon caribou cervena chicken Cornish hen duck elk emu fowl frog legs game goat goose grouse guinea fowl hare kangaroo kid lamb llama moose muscovy duck musk ox... |
 "The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)")
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Cornish College president is set to retire in 2011.(YourThursday)
...Tschernisch, president of Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, says he will retire...70 this year, Tschernisch assumed his Cornish job in 1994 and has significantly expanded...over a period of remarkable expansion of Cornish. Enrollment has swelled from 500 students... |
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Cornish good to go for Kansas football.
...undisclosed injury to running back Jon Cornish won't be enough to keep him out of Kansas...Stadium in Waco, Texas. "I feel good," Cornish said after practice Wednesday. "Good enough to play. I'm always ready." Cornish sat out much of the second half last week... |
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Cornish a living, evolving tongue ; In the third installment of a four-part...
...part series looking at the history of the Cornish tongue, Toby Meyjes examines the different...when Henry Jenner, the instigator of the Cornish language revival, released his first...where other languages have perished, Cornish, which was on the verge of extinction... |
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Cornish.(Endangered Languages)(Brief article)
The Celtic language of Cornish is spoken by about 300 people, mainly...Closely related to Breton and Welsh, Cornish started to branch out from Welsh toward...seventh century C.E. Three types of Cornish--Old Cornish, Middle or Medieval... |
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Cornish on the cusp.
...University's football coach, liked Jon Cornish on tape, but the competition in British...by which to scout. It was late 2001. Cornish just completed a massive senior season...a television correspondent who covered Cornish, the Canadian standout sent his highlight... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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CORNISH CALLS LEAVING `WRENCHING'
...Chelsea School Superintendent Irene L. Cornish recalls the transition she had to make...Now, as she returns to Connecticut, Cornish is struck by how difficult it is for her to leave Chelsea.Cornish, who has been Chelsea's school superintendent... |
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Cornish is new focus of census attention
...call for people to identify themselves as Cornish with a campaign which attracted widespread...how many people considered themselves Cornish. Cornwall Council put posters up in public...record national identity and ethnicity as Cornish. With this in mind, we asked every ... |
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Cornish woman spreading the word, traditions; Celtic connections: Jenkin...
...call it part of England," said the Cornish woman during a visit to Shullsburg...work has been in linking Cornwall to Cornish descendants living elsewhere in the world. Jenkin is a grand bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. In ancient Celtic times... |
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Proper Cornish pasties licence to thrill.
Proper Cornish, one of the UK's leading pasty manufacturers, will...the UK where there is growing demand for this authentic Cornish product. The first pallet of Proper Cornish traditional steak pasties is being exported to an outlet... |
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Jayhawk RB Cornish destroys Kansas State
...CSTV U-WIRE) LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Jon Cornish made some new friends this week. In anticipation...dozens of Kansas State students sent Cornish Facebook.com messages using their favorite...makes me want to destroy them more."Cornish didn't respond.He didn't need to... |
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