<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;">When one is referring to the second of something, but not in a series, the word in Cornish is secùnd. </span></font><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;">Tregear says: yma pedyr in Kynsa chapter in second pistyll TH 18. This means the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">He could not have said *in nessa pistyll because there are only two epistles of Peter and they are not therefore part of a series.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">In the same way Tregear refers to God the Son as an second person five times (TH 1, 12a x 2, 15, 15a). He could not call him *an nessa person, because the persons of the Trinity do not form a series. </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">The Cornish for 'second' is secùnd. Nessa means 'next' (which in a series is the second—and this is the cause of the confusion).</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Tregear say</span>s: So in nessa homelie why a clowith moy dre weras a thu 'But in the next homily you will hear more, by the help of God' (TH 46) where the next homily is the tenth! It is certainly not the second.</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;">Nessa means 'next'</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Secùnd means 'second'.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><br></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 25 Mar 2009, at 16:05, Hewitt, Stephen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; 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; ">"First,...next,...third,...fourth..."</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>