Re: American dialect of Brithenig

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, andrew wrote:

> It was the Scots who pushed for the clearances, at least at a certain
> social and economic level.  There was more money in large scale
> sheep-farming than small tenant-based crofting.  Don't blame London; the
> Scots did that one to themselves!

D'oh!

>  
> On a plus side helium extraction for airships may have become more widely
> available in the 1930s *there.  *Here, the Americans refused to share the
> technology with the Germans which lead to the Hindenburg disaster.
> *There, well, perhaps - London commands...

True enough.  Though note that many tens of thousands of miles were safely
flown using hydrogen.  It certainly wasn't good publicity, however. 
Problem seems particularly to have been the substance used to coat the
ship's skin.  Hydrogen by itself (i.e., in the hydrogen cells) doesn't
burn: it needs close proximity to quantities of oxygen.  Once you get a
hole in the skin, then you run into problems with the hydrogen.

BOAC freight transit anyone? :)

Padraic.

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