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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Either make the choice between
<<STRONG>i</STRONG>> and <<STRONG>y</STRONG>> simple and consistent
or say that either may be used optionally anywhere, or discard one and just use
the other.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please don't leave us with the current
unpredictable mishmash.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>By the way, what is Cornish for "mishmash"? ...
<STRONG>deray</STRONG>, perhaps ... or <STRONG>dere</STRONG>, or
<STRONG>derai</STRONG>?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew J. Trim</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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href="mailto:njawilliams@gmail.com">nicholas williams</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 30, 2008 3:06 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Spellyans] -ita</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">KK is incoherent in its spelling
of words in -ita/-yta < Latin -itat(em).</SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">It writes <trynyta>
'trinity', <cheryta> 'charity', <dynyta> 'dignity' with <-yta>
but</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><kontroversita>
'controversy', <antikwita> 'antiquity' and <awtorita> 'authority'
with <-ita>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">The SWF (as exemplified in Dan's
dictionary) renders the ending as <-ita> everywhere.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">I wonder whether this is wise.
The vowel in -yta is invariably short. I should prefer to
write </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">trynyta, cheryta, dynyta,
controversyta, antyqwyta, auctoryta, etc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Otherwise we might have the
following:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">akwyt a! 'pay
him!'</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">kwyt a! 'leave
him!'</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">antikwita
'antiquity'</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">dibita 'pitiless'</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">all
with [It@] but written differently. This isn't very helpful for learners—many of
whom (understandably)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">found the distribution of y and i baffling in
KK. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">And
it is not just learners who were befuddled by <i ~ y> in KK. The editor of
the KK New Testament in his introduction describes his team of translators as
'experienced Cornish linguists'. They wrote in KK and yet they, 'experienced' as
they were, could frequently not decide whether to write <i> or
<y>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">In
An Testament Nowydh we find <Symeon> Luke 2.25 but <Simeon> Acts
13:1; <Sylvanus> 2 Cor. 1:19 but <Silvanus> 1 Peter 5:12;
<Sidon> Matt 11:21 but <Sydon> Mark 3:8.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Should we not be looking for a simple and coherent
distribution of these two graphs <i> and <y>?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 8px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Baskerville size=5><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Nicholas</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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