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Jan 03, 2012 11:34

The whole divergent evolution of Celtic languages is a result of people not minding their p's and q's. (Inspired by an entry in

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irish, humor, goidelic languages, manx, breton, welsh, celtic languages, scottish gaelic, language history, scots, gaulish, cumbric, language origins, brythonic languages, cornish, scottish english

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pne January 3 2012, 12:01:40 UTC

I picked "Cumbric" instead of "Cumbrian" since that's what Wikipedia calls it. (And so does ISO 639, for that matter.)

pauamma January 3 2012, 12:25:23 UTC

Thanks.

jesuslovesbono January 6 2012, 05:54:07 UTC

Heheh. I remember reading a novel, much of it set at a druid college in 1st-cent. Wales, where the heroine said she had to "mind [her] P- and Q-Celtic."