[Spellyans] tyller and teller in the Akademi dictionary

[Daniel Prohaska]

Thank you Nicky, quite true. There is also plenty of discussion to reduce tags and arrive at a common form where the extremely early and the extremely late forms unnecessarily diverge. But rather than one man making decisions on how to spell, be they Ken George, Nicholas Williams, or indeed Daniel Prohaska, this has become a group effort by group compromise discussion and decision. Yes, on account of that there will be inconsistencies… and they two can be addressed. It is one thing to argue the historical accuracy of a given spelling system, but quite another to disregard what is actually being said in the revived language, and those who tend to base their Revived Cornish on orthographies and “flavours” that are associated with Middle Cornish tend to say and write ‹lyver›, ‹tyller› and ‹prena›, while those who base their Revived Cornish on Late Cornish tend to say and write ‹lever›, ‹teller› and ‹perna›. So, the tags are accurate from the view point of Revived Cornish, and I agree, not necessarily where traditional Cornish is concerned. 
Dan

> On 05.04.2021, at 14:39, Nicky Rowe <nickyrowe688 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In fairness to those who do far more work on the Akademi dictionary than I do, many are aware that the M and L distinction is overblown in words like lyver/lever and tyller/teller, particularly on the dictionary panel. It does not get changed because the tags M and L aren't meant to reflect historical usage, but rather are markers for learners to know which forms are more commonly used in their preferred variant of the *modern* language. Any change to this approach, which came from the need to represent usage among different revivalist groups, would require another SWF review and there is no appetite for one. It is fair to criticise the M/L tags as arbitrary and divisive, as I certainly do, but I don't feel it is fair to claim the compilers are ignorant.
> Nicky
> 
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 20:19, Nicholas Williams <njawilliams at gmail.com <mailto:njawilliams at gmail.com>> wrote:
> The online dictionary of the Akademi Kernewek gives two forms of the word for ‘place’. The first is tyller which is designated with a superscript M to indicate that it is a Middle Cornish form. The second is cited as teller followed by a superscript L to show that it is a distinctively Late Cornish form. Unfortunately for the compilers their distinction is without justification. The attestations in traditional Cornish are as follows:
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> tyller PA 18a, 33a, 65a, 176a, 250b, OM 1551, 1992, 2045, PC 86, 105, 980, 1103, 1837, 2597, RD 270, TH 16, 42a, 43, 45, 47 x 3, BK 149; tyllar TH 6, 18, 29a, 42, 42a, 53a; tillar SA 65a, 66
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> teller PA 206d, OM 579, 939, 1095, 1823, 1909, 2275, 2795, PC 501, BM 629, 677, 1145, 2922, TH 2, 44; pana deller ‘where’ TH 47; telhar BF:25 x3, 29; tellar CW 866, 871, BF: 52.
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> The forms with e as the stressed vowel are attested in Pascon Agan Arluth, Origo Mundi, Passio Christi, Beunans Meriasek and Tregear’ Homilies. Hardly Late Cornish sources. Again the compilers appear to be demonstrating their ignorance of the traditional language.
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> Nicholas Williams 
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