[Spellyans] 'Valley' in Cornish

[Eddie Climo]

On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:54, nicholas williams wrote:

> It is not astonishing therefore that the plural nanssow occurs in PA.

Well, it astonished me that, after all the denials, 'nans' IS in fact  
attested in the texts as a noun -- at least, in the plural. Would we  
be safe, I wonder, in extrapolating the singular noun from this  
solitary plural citation?

> By the sixteenth century, when the original version of CW was  
> written, nans had probably been replaced in speech by valy.

Is there any evidence for this statistical assertion? If so, would  
you care to give a numerical approximation to the probability?

Eddie

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