<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I don't understand what you mean by this remark. </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">It's not most KK speakers, it's all KK speakers (except Ben Bruch who now doesn't believe KK anyway). If Ken George can't pronounce his own invention, why should anyone else?<br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">The prosodic shift, in my view, occurred well before the earliest Middle Cornish. This is why final unstressed syllables are hopeless confused in the Ordinalia</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">and PA. Why should we consider pre-shift Cornish? We're not trying to revive Old Cornish, are we?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Nicholas</span></font></div><div><br><div><div>On 1 Jul 2008, at 20:44, Terry Corbett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Obviously most KK speakers fail to acquire recommended KK pronunciation, but not including this "aspirational" pronunciation in the SWF is probably politically impractical if you want to get the SWF to accept diacritics</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>