A Year of Late Cornish

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Dogens ha Pajar De Sadorn,  üdnegves warn ügens mis Est Saturday, 31st August Ew hedhyw dedh specyal? An diwettha dedh a hav meteorologieth ewa. Ew ev an diwedh hav? A vedh hedhyw an diwettha dedh a gewer havek? Ma kidnyadh meteorologieth ow tallath avorow. A wren nei gweles nebes deffrans? My a'n dout! Solabres ma gwelys genam sinys kidnyavek. Ma reden ow treylya melyn. Ma del marow war an trolergh redenek hag en keow, keth ew an gwedh whath delyek. Da via genam cuntel an mor dû na, saw re ûhel ens. Da via an gwywer cuntel know, saw gellys ens - debrys solabres! Ew da ganjo mor dû? Is today a special day? It's the last day of meteorological summer. Is it the end of summer (summer's end)? Will today be the last day of summery weather? Meteorological autumn starts tomorrow. Will we see any difference? I doubt it! Already I have seen autumnal signs. Ferns are turning yellow. There are dead leaves on the ferny path and in the hedges, although the trees are

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Dogens ha Trei De Gwener, degves warn ügens mis Est Friday, 30th August  Nanj ew etek bledhen Fran Brown,  fysiotherapydhes  dhort Truru, a veu electrisyen gòlowow en gwariva en Loundres. Nena hei a godhas dhe'n dor - whetek trooshes dhort skeyl - ha shyndya hy hodna. Pehen sport alja bos gwres gen benyn efreg? Gen determyans brâs hei a sayas nebes - crambla, triathlon, diwrosya. Lebmyn, òtta hei gen hy diwros en Gwariow Paralympyk en Paris. Eighteen years ago Fran Brown, a physiotherapist from Truro, was a lighting technician in a theatre in London. Then she fell down - sixteen feet from a ladder - and damaged her neck. What sort of sport can be done by a handicapped woman? With great determination she tried several - climbing, triathlon and cycling. Now, here she is with her bicycle at the Paralympic Games in Paris. Deg ger rag hedhyw  Ten words for today codha  to fall >  a godhas  (preterite) codna  (m)  neck  ( c>h  after  hy ) determyans  (m)  deter

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Dewgens ha Dew De Yow, nawves warn ügens Mis Est Thursday, 29th August Wòja gwerryans ha wòja droglabmow ma pup pres tüs vrowys. Terweythyow ma nebonan genys gen efredhder (disabylita). Clojy Stoke Mandeville a dhallathas cawas kesstrivow sportys rag clevyon efredhek (sethorieth en kensa, gen peswardhek den ha diw venyn en cadoryow-ros). Endelna An   Mò vyans Paralympyk a veu genys.  De Sadorn, pajwora warn ügens mis Est, diw dorchen a veu anowys, dhe vos degys dhe'n Gwariow Paralympyk en Paris. War an diwedh, woja kesres a, martesen, dewdhek cans deger, an torchednow a wrüg anowy an  Câwdarn  Olympyk arta, en Ceremony Egery. Lebmyn ma lies moy es whetek kesstriver.     After warfare and after accidents there are always casualties. Sometimes someone is born with a disability (handicap). Stoke Mandeville Hospital began to have sporting competitions for disabled patients (archery at first, with 14 men and 2 women in wheelchairs). Thus the Paralympic Movement was

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Dogens ha Wonan De Merher, ethves warn ügens mis Est Wednesday, 28th August Ma kevys genam daralla rag flehes scrifys genam nanj ew lies bledhen. E veu othom dhebm a chanjya oll an spellyans! Lebmyn nag eus dhebm termyn lowr she scrifa neppeth aral. Rag hedna, òtta kensa radn an daralla. Eus olifans gwydn gwir e'n daralla, en neb le? Martesen! E vedh gever, mergh ha  cònidnas, en certan.    I have found a story for children I wrote many years ago. I had to change all the spelling! Now I don't have enough time to write anything else. Therefore, here's the first part of the story. Is there a real white elephant in the story, somewhere? Perhaps! There will be goats, horses and rabbits, certainly. Deg ger rag hedhyw  Ten words for today I had to invent  geverjy  goat-house, goat shed   on the basis of similar words: bôwjy  (m)  cowshed, cow-house colomjy  (m)  pigeon-house keunjy  (m)  kennel, dog-house And here are some words around buying and selling: ( t

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans ha Dewgens De Meurh, seythves warn ügens mis Est Tuesday, 27th August Nei ell trouvya an daralla  Jôwan Chei a Hordh en nebes vercyons. Scrifys veu an kensa, en Kernôwek Diwedhes, gen Nicholas Boson, marchant puskes dhort Lulyn. An nessa a veu leverys dhe Edward Lhuyd gen John Boson (mab Nicholas). Venten a bris ens rag an tavas moy diwedhes. Rag fra ma treylyansow en KK ha KS? Nag ew an daralla y hònan meur dhe les. Thew daralla keswlasek. Rag fra wrüg Boson dewis an daralla ma? Ma darallys erel lowr. Saw  aljava bos a bris? Ellen nei redya tredh an linednow? E'n daralla ma nebes poyntys a skians. An kensa: "Na wrewgh gara an vorr (fordh) goth rag an vorr (fordh) nowydh." Sevys o Nicholas dres an rayn Metêrn Charles I. Tho hedna y "vorr goth". Nena thera bresel tredh Metêrn ha Senedh. An Metêrn a veu gòrrys dhe'n mernans ha'n wlas a dreylyas Poblegeth. "Vorr nowydh" Boson a veu hedna. Nag o Protestantieth extrem meurgerys

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Nawnjek warn Ügens De Lün, wheffes warn ügens mis Est Monday, 26th August Termyn hir thera drog hanow dhe'n bobel a Gernow. Ma dhen devyn dhort Adam de Carleton e'n vledhen terdhek cans dogens ha dew ha ev owth omdedna avel Arhdiagon Kernow. "An bobel an parthow ma," emedh ev, "ew dres kinda!" (O anjei coynt?) Nag era keslavürya et aga gnas. Tho anjei "avlethys e'n fas a attentys dhe dhesky ha owna". Âwtorita nag o da gen an Kernôwyon. Meur o aga galarow et aga rebellyansow moy diwedhes. Lies cans a düs,   Kernôwegoryon,   a veu ledhys.  For a long time the people of Cornwall had a bad reputation.  We have a quotation from Adam de Carleton in the year 1342 as he resigned as Archdeacon of Cornwall. "The folk of these parts," he said, "are extraordinary!" (Were they strange?) It was not in their nature to cooperate. They were "obdurate in the face of attempts to teach and correct". The Cornish pe

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Etek warn Ügens De Sül, pempes warn ügens mis Est Sunday, 25th August Aswonys en laha ew an Kernôwyon avel minorita kenedhlek, saw nag eus meur a weres dhort governans a'n cres. Nag ew   tra veth nowydh  an ombla rag an natûr enwejek a Kernow ha'n Kernôwyon. E'n pemdhegves cansbledhen ha whetegves cansbledhen e veu pajar sevyans e'n West, onan anodhans en Pennryn - Kernôwek bedn Sowsnek, gwesyon vian bohojek bedn pednsevigyon rych. Nag era whans dhe'n bobel a chânjyans cryjyk. Ma men cov en Pennryn rag an Rebellyans Lever Pejadow.     The Cornish people are now recognised in law as a national minority, but there is not much help from central government. The struggle for the distinctiveness of Cornwall and the Cornish people is nothing new. In the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century there were four uprisings in the West, one of them in Penryn - Cornish language versus English language, poor underlings against a rich elite. The people did

  2024 Dedh Dew Cans Seytek warn Ügens De Sadorn pajwora war ügens mis Est Saturday, 24th August My a redyas daralla dhe les adro dhe bloum. En termyn eus passyes thera Breten ow qwerrya bedn Frenk. Thera keffresyans dhen gen  Portûgal. Onan a 'ga gorholyon a dheuth bys en Dowr Fala. Thera nebes ploumednow dres gen an varners dhe dhebry. Towlys mes a'n gorhel a veu an spüs. War neb coor anjei a dhüryas an dowr sal ha tevy dhe wedh ploum war ladn an dowr. Lebmyn ma whath dhe Arlòdh Falmeth jarn ploum a'n ploum Ke ma. Bian ens ha trenk rag debry bes da ens rag jamm ker. Bledhydnyow alebma thera tir ledan ha lies den whel dhe Arlòdh Falmeth. Anjei a wrüg debry y bloum ewedh ha towla dhe ves an spüs. Lebmyn nei a wel ploumbrednyer Ke ow cüdha en keow coth pel dhort an Dowr Fala. Nag eus onan en Portûgal na moy bes ma onan coth dhe vy et ow lowarth, e'n ke, gen bohes ploum! I read an interesting story about plums. In a past time Britain was waging war against France. We had