[Spellyans] Blejyow or Flowrys?

[Eddie Climo]

On 30 Me 2010, at 18:11, janicelobb at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Will somebody please explain to my limited intelligence why, if two  
> words are known to have existed for something, we have to ration  
> ourselves to one.
> Ehaz
> Jan

Alas, Jan, 'limited intelligence' has little or nothing to do with the  
matter. I fear it is more a case of the concern voiced a while back by  
George Saville, Marquis of Hallifax (1633-1695), talking about the  
dangers of a surfeit of (receiving or giving?) education:
>  The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a  
> blockhead.

As you may be aware, Cornwall has suffered —and still does— from a  
superfluity of hubristic blockheads, some of them posing as  
'linguists'. Alas, some of these self-styled 'lingusts' can't (or  
choose not to) even speak Cornish!

Gony!

Eddie