[Spellyans] Spelling: placemanes

Wed Jan 27 10:23:42 GMT 2010

Craig,

Many thanks for quick reply.   Spelling issues on placename forms are a most 
imnportant corpus issue.

I hope very much that you feel the strength of group support with you on 
this.  I am sure that Oliver will have strong and positive views on this 
informed with a great deal of expertise.  He is after all President of EPNS 
and can speak with authority.

Our own experience in Scotland in setting up AAA ( Ainmean Aite na h- Alba - 
Gaelic Placenamnes of Scotland) - and incorporating this in the official 
Gaelic language planning process is proving most helpful.
and is beginning to show in the environment.

Unity is strength and I would suggest that some liaison with this body will 
be helpful as a resource and as an exemplar of experience.

If I can assist in connections shall be glad to do so.

Kemer wyth - an Ken ken

Ken MacKinnon is now on Broadband  with new e-mail addresses:-

ken at ferintosh.org
and also at:-
ken.ferintosh at googlemail.com

My former e-mail addresses are no longer able to be used.

(Prof) Ken MacKinnon
Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
Ross-shire  IV 7 8HX
Scotland  UK

Tel: 01349 - 863460

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Weatherhill" <craig at agantavas.org>
To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Spellyans] BBC Broadcast

> Yes, Ken, both Oliver and I are included.  Our first meeting was last
> Friday.  That established little more than a basic working practice
> policy and the fact that I will have my work heavily cut out to banish
> non-traditional graphs from historic place-names.  I will need to have
> steel heels fitted for the amount of digging in I'll have to do
> against Pol and Julyan..
>
> Craig
>
>
> On 26 Gen 2010, at 16:01, Ken MacKinnon wrote:
>
>> Craig and friends.
>>
>> I watched the Inside Out programme courtesy of Sky.   My own
>> thoughts were that it did not get us very much further forward.   I
>> contributed over an hour of recorded speech - but little more than a
>> couple of snippets were used ( in my view on somewhat perpheral
>> issues).
>>
>> The programme contained a lot of stereoptyping, and I thought that
>> Mick Catmull would have gotten a bit beyond this onto more salient
>> issues.
>>
>> I understand that CLP have set up a placenames working group.   I
>> very much trust that people like yourself, Craig , and Oliver Padel
>> have been included.
>>
>> Jenefer and Nev Meek are due to attend a British & Irish seminar on
>> language legislation next week in Edinburgh - and I hope to have the
>> opportunity of a session with them on current issues.
>>
>> - oll an gwella - an Ken ken
>>
>> Ken MacKinnon is now on Broadband  with new e-mail addresses:-
>>
>> ken at ferintosh.org
>> and also at:-
>> ken.ferintosh at googlemail.com
>>
>> My former e-mail addresses are no longer able to be used.
>>
>> (Prof) Ken MacKinnon
>> Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
>> The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
>> Ross-shire  IV 7 8HX
>> Scotland  UK
>>
>> Tel: 01349 - 863460
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Weatherhill" 
>> <craig at agantavas.org
>> >
>> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] BBC Broadcast
>>
>>
>>> Yes, I did see this.  Some presenter/interviewer from way out of
>>> Cornwall, perpetuating the Dolly Pentreath list and with the usual
>>> sneery attitude we've come to expect from the BBC.  'Do you speak
>>> Cornish?' he asked the barmaid.  'No," she replied.  'Thank God for
>>> that,' he said.
>>>
>>> Still, Mick, Ray and Denise held their own.  Rather well, I thought.
>>>
>>> I've missed the Radio Cornwall programme today on which some academic
>>> from the University of Durham is being allowed to opine that the
>>> Cornish, as a people, don't exist.  (If this was done against a black
>>> or Asian group, there would be all hell to pay and probably
>>> prosecutions as well).  Ok, so I don't exist, therefore this message
>>> has never been sent.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 Gen 2010, at 14:42, j.mills at email.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> For those who missed the BBC broadcast concerning the Cornish
>>>> language (Monday 25 January), it can be found on BBC iPLayer at
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qg3bb/Inside_Out_South_West_25_01_2010/
>>>> .
>>>> Fast forward to about 9 mins 50 secs into the programme for the part
>>>> concerning the Cornish language.
>>>> Ol an gwella
>>>> Jon
>>>> _____________________________________
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>>>> University of Kent
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