From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 7/11/2024 1:43 a.m., Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > On 2024-11-06 09:30:36 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
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   >> Cornish translator and antiquary, born 1555 at East Antony.   
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   >> I didn't find anything about whether Carew himself actually spoke   
   >> Cornish, or wrote anything in it.   
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   > Neither can I find anything much. However, I think it's very unlikely   
   > that he spoke Cornish. My great^14 grandfather Alexander Carew died in   
   > Antony in 1492, and was probably a relative of Richard Carew. However,   
   > he was born in Haccombe, Devon, and his ancestors were also from Devon,   
   > as far as the weak evidence goes. Notice, moreover, that Antony is on   
   > the Rame Peninsula, the most English part of Cornwall, and indeed part   
   > of Devon until the boundary reforms of 1889.   
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   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carew_(antiquary)   
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   Interesting family connection! That R.Carew didn't speak it seems   
   likely. The language was already in retreat. (Wikipedia puts the peak of   
   speaker numbers in the 13th century.) I did find one comment on it from   
   Caqrew's _Survey_:   
      
   [M]ost of the inhabitants can speak no word of Cornish, but very few are   
   ignorant of the English; and yet some so affect their own, as to a   
   stranger they will not speak it; for if meeting them by chance, you   
   inquire the way, or any such matter, your answer shall be, "Meea navidna   
   caw zasawzneck," "I [will] speak no Saxonage."[66]   
      
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