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Edward Lhuyd

Welsh linguist and naturalist

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Cornish literature

  • In Cornish literature

    …1700 the linguist and naturalist Edward Lhuyd visited Cornwall to study the language. His Archæologia Britannica (1707) reproduces Boson’s folk tale “John of Chyannor” in a phonetic script, the only example of a secular prose story in historical Cornish. William Bodinar’s letter (1776), the last surviving text in historical Cornish,…

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