(I've posted this to the Celtic-L, too, so please excuse if you get it twice.) For a paper on the Celtic languages I'm working on several versions of the well-known (well-known to linguists that is) story of "The North Wind and the Sun". For BRETON I was lucky to find two versions, one of which is in Tregorrois, the other in a subdialect of Vannetais (Isle de Groix), both are in phonetic transcription only. I've been trying to transcribe these texts as far as this was possible (umh) in some kind of standard orthography. As I'm no expert on Breton and as e.g. a lot of particles were missing from the spoken text, I would like to ask someone now who is familiar with Breton (and I've got a silent hope that there is someone on this list) to check my transcription of the Tregorrois text (below) and tell me where the blunders are (I've no doubt that these exist). The text is from the Journal of the International Phonetic Association 8 (1978), 80 (ed. S. Hewitt): Avel an hanternoz hag an heol a oa o tabutal, pehini a oa ar c'hren+van+, pa oa deut ur beajour o vont, paket en ur vantell domm. En em (1) glevet e oant, an hini kentan+ a lakefe (2) ar beajour da dennan+ e vantell, hennezh, neuze, a vije gwelet kren+voc'h evit egile. Ha setu avel an hanternoz da c'hwezhan+ gwashan+ ma c'halle, met washoc'h (3) a-se e c'hwezhe, startoc'h a-se e pake ar beajour e vantell en-dro dezhan+, hag a- benn ar fin he doa (4) paouezet avel an hanternoz da glask ober. Ha neuze an heol tomm da baran+ warnan+, hag ar beajour diouzhtu (5) da dennan+ e vantell, hag evel-se (6) e oa ret-mat da avel an hanternoz anzav e oa kren+ voc'h an heol evitan+. There are some difficult points: (1) en em = phonet. [nom]. Is this the/a dialectal form of _en em_? (2) lakefe: "standard" = lakafe? (3) washoc'h: why is this mutated? (4) he doa = [da]? This correct? Perhaps _he doe_? (5) diouzhtu = [dys'ty]? (6) hag evel-se = [a vi'se]? I'm not sure about this. I would be very thankful for some help on this, and maybe this text is of interest to some of us, too. If you know of other Celtic versions (Irish e.g.), please contact me! I.M. P.S.: Si vous voulez re/pondre en franc,ais, c'est pas de proble\me...