Cornwall and very many other national communities are minorities within their respective state, or even within their own historic territories. I have been collecting a…
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We really need to talk about …. Bogus British Histories
The Guardian published two recent editorials supporting languages (“Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis” 22 Feb 24, and “Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to…
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Java Array Filling with Only Last Record’s Data
Having spent hours trying to find the bug in my logic, I’ve finally found the offending item. Talk about obscure! Here’s the offending block of…
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An Introduction to Cornish Onomastics
Onomastics is the study of names and the process of naming, and anthroponomastics is the study of personal names, as generally applied to people (anthroponyms),…
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Creating a Suitable Development Environment for Geocoding: Macs, Java and NetBeans – Part 1
Problem Statement Having extracted the Ordnance Survey Open Names data from the OS web site and found that the precision of the data was insufficient…
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Adding Elevation Data to the Place Names Dataset
I have now created new point data for about 6,000 settlements in Cornwall (with more accurate Lat/Long coordinates than provided by the Ordnance Survey Open…
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What is IPA?
The ability to communicate effectively about the phonology of a language, particularly when it is no longer spoken relies on having a standard notation for…
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How to: Create a Project in QGIS
Prerequisites: QGIS installed on your system. Step 1: Open QGIS. You should see something like this: Step 2: Save your project file with a suitable…
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Matron or Man-Mother?
Thought for the day: Padel has the patron saint of Madron as a male, Matronus. But the meaning is the root *Matrona, an Italo-Celtic, Latin…
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Cornish Dog’s Names?
When asked what would be a suitable name for a new female puppy, what could I do? Some head scratching and browsing of a list…
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