On Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 3:00:00 PM UTC+8, Martyn wrote:
yes the word "crib" is a cornish dialect word specifically an east cornish word the equivilent west Cornish word being "croust" meaning a meal or5
snack on the road or at the work place
Phillip Treweek wrote in message ...
Martyn
"Kernow yw bro vyghan gans kolon bras "
In article <01bd21ab$9f1c5400$0200...@lucas.bssc.edu.au>, "George Ellis" ><ell...@netcon.net.au> wrote:
Could anyone please tell me if the word crib (as in meal taken to work)
is
part of the Cornish dialect.
In the later part of the 19th century the local newspaper of Bendigo,
Australia, reported that a visitor from Cornwall, commented that at Long >> Gully he had heard more broad Cornish (dialect) spoken in one afternoon
than in a whole week at St Just Cornwall.
My father has always used 'crib' in this context. Our family has been in >New Zealand for a number of generaltions, and my father thought the term >originated in Cornwall.
Phil.
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