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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Cornish Names
Cornish Hug
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