Cornwall is a duchy. Owned by Prince Charles. It has never been an independent country, but the people are essentially descended from the pre-Anglo-Saxon population and related to other populations from the so-called Celtic fringe - the Atlantic seaboard. One of my brothers lives in Cornwall. Some of his Cornish friends are fiercely anti-English, but apparently not enough to learn the Cornish language, which seems to be dying out. A part of Brittany is called Cornouaille and was settled by people from Cornwall - many of the place names are very obviously from the same language. The Cornish and Breton flags are very similar, if not identical.
Boris is playing brinkmanship with the EU. I’d say the chances of him still being PM this time next year are pretty slim. > On 7 Sep 2020, at 15:07, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These are serious questions, not meant to be political, solely to satisfy > my own curiosity: > > 1. What the heck is Cornwall? Is it just a region of England, or are the > Cornish a separate ethnic group, like, for example, the Welsh? > > 2. Whatever happened to Brexit? Has it just faded into insignificance > because of the pandemic, or will the government sit down and really try to > work something out with the Germans and the French? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
