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Sharing some #Cornish printed heritage from @britishlibrary for #StPiransDay with Andrew Boorde’s ‘tourist guide’ to the British Isles printed in 1540.
“In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty englyshe, and the other is cornyshe”
Some phrases to follow ...
C.71.b.29
“In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty englyshe, and the other is cornyshe”
Some phrases to follow ...
C.71.b.29
Boorde’s ‘fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge’ was to, ‘teache a man to speake parte of all maner of languages, and to knowe the vsage and fashion of al maner of countreys. And know the moste parte of all maner of coynes of money, the whych is currant in euery region”
(When walking about in the nip with a pair of scissors)
