[Spellyans] iw

[A. J. Trim]

I thought that you were recommending <dew> "two" for both masculine and 
feminine. Has that changed?

I don't regard the difference as significant but some people believe that 
there is a real difference between <iw> and <yw>. Perhaps we should 
recommend that they write their supposed difference as <yu> and <yw> 
instead.


Regards,

Andrew J. Trim



-----Original Message----- 
From: nicholas williams
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:38 PM
To: Standard Cornish discussion list
Subject: Re: [Spellyans] iw

<iw> is not found in Cornish. It is therefore not justifiable at all.
One should write pyw 'who' and dyw 'two' (feminine); end of story.
<iw> is George's ideal based on Lhuyd, who actually wrote iu with a dot 
under the u.
<iw> has no place in any traditionally based orthography for Cornish.

Nicholas

On 2010 Du 19, at 21:29, Michael Everson wrote:

> The distinction between <iw> (which is unattested in Cornish and is 
> justifiable only by Breton <iv>) and <yw> is a fiction.


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