[Spellyans] "Thank you"

[Eddie Climo]

On 25 Est 2010, at 07:55, nicholas williams wrote:
> Given that gromercy ‘thank you’ is much better attested than any  
> other expression with the sense ‘thank you’, perhaps we should be  
> using it in preference to Meur ras dhis/Meur ras dhywgh why.

Or perhaps we should not! Given that 'mur ras' and 'gromercy' and  
'durdala why' are all frequently attested in the Revived Cornish  
corpus, and have all been in common use amongst Kernewegoryon for more  
than 3 generations, one should instead use whichever one fancies.

And we can add to the list (based on what Nance offers in his  
excellent dictionaries) such confections as 'mur ras a aswonaf dhys',  
'y whon dhys mur ras', or even, 'dhys re bo grassys' and 'dhys y'n  
grassaf'

Isn't Cornish lucky to have such a richness of ways of expressing  
gratitude. I very much hope that Kernewegoryon will refuse to have  
their choice of idiom constrained by someone counting up what's in the  
historical corpus.

The living, revived language is too rich and vibrant to be ruled by  
mere accountants' number crunching, surely.

Eddie Foirbeis Climo
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