thanks a lot, I'm finding it very interesting. Does anybody happen to know why it was particularly at the beginning of the Eighteenth century that Cornish seemed to more or less pass out of use? Things had been looking very bleak for Welsh at that time, and there is cause for believing that it might not have survived as a spoken language beyond the end of that century if it were not for the Methodist Revival. That same Revival affected Cornwall as well, though, so I suppose there must have been other factors at work. Does anybody know what they were? [Pam bosties i hynny yn Saesneg? 'Dw i ddim yn siwr; efallai yr oedd yr erthygl diwethaf y darllenes i yn Saesneg. Dim ots, beth bynnag. Hyderwn y gallai'r holl Gymry presennol deall yr uchod yn iawn...] Steve Morris, UWC/CPC Cardiff/Caerdydd... [.llofnod newydd ar ei ffordd rhywbryd.....]