A Year of Late Cornish

  2026 Dedh Dew Cans De Sül, nawnjegves mis Gorefen Sunday, 19th July Lôwen o vy hedhyw. Thera visytoryon dhe nei. Nanj ew lies bledhen tho ow gour ha y goweth whithroryon, en whithrans cleves canker, en Loundres. Thera anjei ow whilas defowtys en cromosomys en bothednow. Lebmyn omdednys ens, ha diberthys ens gen lies mildir. Hedhyw, an coweth a dheuth dhe'n chei nei. Dres o ev gen y vergh ha gen gour an vergh et aga harr.  An den yonk ew treher meyn gwir. Pur dhe les ew y experyens.   I'm happy today. We had visitors. Many years ago my husband and his friend were researchers, in cancer research, in London. They were looking for abnormalities of chromosomes in tumours. Now they are retired and are separated by many miles. Today the friend came to our house. He was brought by his daughter and the daughter's husband in their car. The young man is a real stone mason. His experience is very interesting.

  2026 Dedh Cans Pajar Ügens ha Nawnjek De Sadorn, etegves mis Gorefen Saturday, 18th July Tòbm ew an gewer arta - re dòbm ha re segh. Ma glasneth ow treylya  melyn ha gosednek. Nag ewa maga las avel kens. Bès Kernow a dal bos glas. Ma othom dhen a las. Ma lies telher "glas" dhodho. Nicholas Smith a liwyas a "sawan" las (gen mor glas). The weather is hot again - too hot and too dry.  Vegetation is turning yellow and rusty. It is not as green as before. But Cornwall should be green. We need green. It has many "green" places. Nicholas Smith painted the green "zawn" (with a blue sea). The word GLAS has ancient origins. Travel several hundred miles further north to Scotland and you find Glasgow (recorded as Glasgu around 1136), meaning Green Hollow, which is similarly derived from the original British language of these islands. Here are some Cornish place names containing “glaze” or “glase”, meaning GREEN (ref. Craig Weatherhill). We can only guess...

  2026 Dedh Cans Pajar Ügens hag Etek De Gwener, seytegves mis Gorefen Friday, 17th July Eus towl? Is there a plan? Ma towl. There is a plan. Eus towl dhewgh agas hònan?  Do you have a plan yourselves? Nag eus towl dhe vy ow hònan.  I do not have a plan myself. Ma towl dhe ’n Consel.  The Council has a plan. Ma towl dhe ’n Consel rag an tavas.  The Council has a plan for the language. An towl ew henwys An Strateji.  The plan is called The Strategy. An towl a vedh rag an nessa deg bledhen. The plan will be for the next ten years. Eus towl da dhe ’n Consel?  Does the Council have a good plan? Ew ev towl da? Is it a good plan? Towl da ew (ev). It is a good plan . Thewa towl da. It is a good plan. Nag ewa towl drog. It is not a bad plan. Ma ’n Consel ow towla (towlel) towl rag an tavas.  The Council is making (planning) a plan for the language.   Pandr’ew an towl? What is the plan? Pandr’ew towl an Consel?  What is the Cou...

  2026 Dedh Cans Pajar Ügens ha Seytek De Yow, whetegves mis Gorefen Thursday, 16th July Pandr'ew 'tan gwyls'? Nag eus üdn styryans sodhogel en üdnek. Tanyow brâs, mes a-jei,  ens. Mons ow reqwirya devnydhyow a vry dre reson aga mens, aga düryans po aga godros dhe düs ha framweyth. Ma othom dhodhans a vrigâds tan - gwithyjy tan gen jynnys tan - dh'aga senjy. Ma bolònjedhogyon ow qweres ewedh. Pandr'eus ow lesky?  Plansow segh - neptra dhort gwelsednow munys ha erbys dhe vagasow ha gwedh brâs. Heb glaw, thew puptra segh avel cünys. Ma eythin ow lesky en üskis. Üdn elven vian, tanbredn losk, ell cüna tan. Ha wòja hedna ma va ow lesa. E'n jedh ha nos res ew bos gweskys ha glebys.    What is 'wildfire'. There is no single official definition. They are large outdoor fires. They require significant resources because of their size, their duration or their threat to people and infrastructure. They need the fire brigades - fire fighters with fire engines - to co...

  2026 Dedh Cans Pajar Ügens ha Whetek De Merher, pemdhegves mis Gorefen Wednesday, 15th July Etho, Gool Sen Swithin ew hedhyw ha nag üjy hei ow kil glaw. Warlergh an henwhedhal, e vedh dhen dogens dedh segh moy. Nag eus othom dhen a henwhedhal rag an nowodhow na! Ma dhen ragwolok hir war an awel, gen sciensydhyon (meteorologydhyon). Ma othom dhen a law. Da via genen cawas nebes glaw.     So, it is St Swithin's Day today and it is not raining. According to the legend, we will have forty more dry days. We do not need a legend for that news! We have a long-range weather forecast, by scientists (meteorologists). We need rain. We would like to have some rain. 

2026 Dedh Cans Pajar Ügens ha Pemdhek De Meurth, pajardegves mis Gorefen Tuesday, 14th July Ma dedh specyal dhe bub pow. Terweythyow thew degol sans tasek, rag sampel Gool Peran, pempes mis Meurth, en Kernow. Terweythyow, ma va ow cova wharvos storek a bris, rag sampel Dedh Bastille, le quatorze juillet, en Pow Frenk. An jedh na, an bobel bohojek a assâwltyas an preson ker na en Paris. An Wheldro a dhallathas Poblegeth Frenkek (heb metêrn) en seytek cans pajar ügens. Kernow nag ew poblegeth, na whath, bes nag eus preson ker dhe nei! Every country has a special day. Sometimes it is the feast of a patron saint, for example St Piran's Day,  5th March, in Cornwall. Sometimes, it commemorates an important historical event, for example Bastille Day, le quatorze juillet, in France. On that day, the poor people stormed that fortress prison in Paris. The Revolution began the French Republic (without a king) in 1780. Cornwall is not a republic, not yet, but we don't have a fortress priso...