[Spellyans] attestations

[Craig Weatherhill]

With due respect to all, and the principle of tota Cornicitas, may I 
suggest that we allow both valy and nans in our vocabulary.  Along with 
ryver and awan, and the other alternatives mentioned by Nicholas.  I 
agree with him that Kemmyn users will not like the loan words but, if it 
can be shown that a word was used in traditional Cornish (including 
toponyms), then its inclusion in the language's vocabulary must surely 
be justified.  This practice increases, and therefore enriches, the 
language and, after all, what is so wrong with loan words?  Modern 
English includes so many of them that it could be viewed as the original 
Esperanto, and no user of English seems to mind (in fact, many are 
unaware of the loan words they frequently use).

That some Cornish users resent the loan-words from English is quite 
ridiculous when you consider the fact that many words accepted as 
traditional Cornish by all are, in fact, loans from other languages.  
For one example out of hundreds: gwedren, "glass", derived from Latin 
"vitrinus".


Craig