[Spellyans] Place names

[Craig Weatherhill]

The Cornish name for St Buryan is Eglos Beryan or Eglosberyan, the  
latter being is on two road signs on the village outskirts (one  
slightly misspelt as Eglosboryan - although that is attested).   
'Saint' wouldn't have come into it.  Note that proper names are not  
lenited after eglos.

Craig

On 28 Gen 2010, at 10:34, Ray Chubb wrote:

> And as we now know the use of Saint/St. before saint's names in  
> Cornish place names is totally unwarranted from a historical point  
> of view.
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> We have got a struggle on our hands because I don't think that even  
> all Cornish speakers except this fact.
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> On 28 Gen 2010, at 10:12, John Nash wrote:
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>> How much support are people finding for Cornish to be used in  
>> public signage? I recently mailed St Buryan Parish council to ask  
>> why our very nice brand new village sign didn't include somehwere  
>> the name in Cornish, as this wouldn't have added to the cost. The  
>> answer was simply that "they saw no reason for it" and that "of the  
>> eleven councillors, ten were St Buryan born and bred".
>> Oll an gwella
>> John Nash
>> Lamorna (Sadly, not born and bred in St Buryan)
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Craig Weatherhill