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Cornish Language

was virtually extinct 150 years ago. Doll Pentreath, the last person who could speak it, died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1777. (Notes and Queries.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Corneille du Boulevard
Corneille dEsope (La)
Corner (A)
Corner
Corner (The)
Corner-stone (The)
Cornet
Cornette
Corngrate
Cornish Hug
Cornish Language
Cornish Names
Cornish Wonder (The)
Cornubian Shore (The)
Cornu-copia
Cornwall
Coronach
Coronation Chair
Coroner
Coronet
Coronis