The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46000 Message #683223
Posted By: greg stephens
04-Apr-02 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Dan Milner - Song first / Singer second
Subject: RE: Dan Milner - Song first / Singer second
Peg. How do you figure out a "correct" Cornish accent? Nobodys spoken it for 200 years. Are you trying to guess how it might have been spoken then? Or how it might be pronounced now, if it had developed,which it hasnt? I'm Cornish by the way. And if youre singing songs in Cornish, where did you get them from? Are they old songs,in which case I'd be very interested in where you found them, or are they by modern antiquarians? Cornish identity is important to me, so I hope you see why these questions are important to me.