Originally Posted by kernow

The last true Cornish speaker apparently died 200 years ago, the Cornish spoken to-day is a made up language which the "Cornish elite" :roll: claim is the real thing , even though no living person has ever heard true Cornish spoken. I prefer the "Jethro" version!

Originally Posted by Simon Muir

So do I, but I was under the impression that there was a 'fight' between two conflicting interpretations of Cornish.

Which side was Brenda Wootton on?

Originally Posted by Britannist

Godfrey Bloom, the UK Independence Party MEP for Yorkshire, wrote in the letters page of the Sunday Telegraph edition of 8.10.2006 "While you are correct to report that the EU 'Parliament' is spending a small fortune to recruit interpreters who speak Irish ('That was the week', 24.9.2006, Sunday Telegraph), I think you are wrong about the number of MEPs who speak Irish as a first language. I sat in the chamber in Strasberg last week and it all sounded Irish to me."