[Spellyans] Place names

[Craig Weatherhill]

Silly woman argued against bilingual signage, saying it would confuse  
her 'constituents*'.  Hardly - her Ward is in the old Kerrier area  
(Troon and Beacon) where bilingual street name signage has been in  
place for several years!

*Note that some of these councillors now have 'constituencies' as  
though they're MPs.  Sheer pretentiousness.  They are still Wards.

Craig


On 28 Gen 2010, at 15:44, Ken MacKinnon wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I have a word for this 'cultural false consciousness'.   A good  
> example of this was Councillr Morwenna Williams on Inside Out last  
> Monday.  She thought that the use of Cornish language made the  
> Cornish people look ridiculous.  She might have set a good example  
> herself by changing her name.
>
> - 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: Tom Trethewey
> To: Standard Cornish discussion list
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Place names
>
> There is a very good "reason for it".  The Cornish form (I favour  
> Eglosveryan) indicates the pronunciation, while the Anglicized St  
> Buryan is ambiguous in this respect.
>
> Tom
>
> --- On Thu, 28/1/10, John Nash <mim.oldwellstudio at btinternet.com>  
> wrote:
>
> From: John Nash <mim.oldwellstudio at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [Spellyans] Place names
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Date: Thursday, 28 January, 2010, 10:12
>
> 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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