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New data point for Brithenig time line
1547: William of Salesbury publishes _A Dictionary in Englyshe and
Welshe or Cambriese_, the first Brithenig-English dictionary.
"Its object was to teach the literate Kemrese English, enabling them
to learn it even without the help of an English-speaking master...."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
(Conculturists, more information is available in summary form at
http://www.earthlight.co.nz/~andrew/brithenig/brithenig.html#kemr)
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)