{ 0c} “If that learned wise man should see this, he would find reason to correct it in orthography, etc.”—_Nebbaz Gerriau_.
{ 6} The Britons of the Kingdom of the North (Cumberland and Strathclyde) probably spoke the progenitor of Welsh, which they perhaps brought south with them, displacing the South British in Gwynedd and Powys, and later in South Wales, when they also drove out the Goidelic intruders.
{ 7} In September 1903, at the end of the Congress of the _Union Régionaliste Bretonne_ at Lesneven in Finistère, the present writer made a speech in Cornish, perhaps the first that had been made for two hundred years, and rather to his astonishment he was fairly well understood by the Bretons. It is true that all were educated men, but only one of them had studied Cornish.
{ 10b} _Cf._ “Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona’s hold.”
{ 12} Clarendon’s account of the Cornish troops in the Great Rebellion gives the impression that there was no lack of piety among them at that time.
{ 17} Probably the well-known Sir John Maynard, whose MSS. are now in Lincoln’s Inn Library. He represented a Devon constituency at one time.
{ 19} In Tonkin’s notes to Carew’s _Survey_ (Lord de Dunstanville’s edition) passages which occur in Pryce are referred to pages of “my _Archæologia Cornu-Britannica_.”
{ 39} The motto of Harris of Hayne, “_Car Dew dres pub tra_,” is mentioned in Boson’s _Nebbaz Gerriau_, and is part of stanza 23 of the _Poem of the Passion_.
{ 50} The remarks added here in brackets are those of the present writer.
{ 54} In compound words the accent is always on the qualifying part, and if that is a monosyllable and comes last, the accent is therefore on the last syllable. This is common in place-names.
{ 55} It seems likely that in the very peculiar intonation of Zennor, Morvah, Towednack, and the country part of St. Ives the true intonation of Cornish may be best preserved. But this is mere conjecture.
{ 56} The modern Cornish pronunciation of the word “trade,” in its local and rather contemptuous sense of “ropes’ ends, dead mice, and other combustibles” (as Cornishman once denned it), shows the sound of this vowel fairly well.
{ 57} Care must be taken in this case to avoid that _ŷ_ sound given to the English _a_ in London twang (_e.g._ lȳdy for lady).