Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Cornwall to become dinosaur experience park

According to an anonymous government source, Cornwall is going to gradually transition to be a dinosaur experience park.

A series of comments by a Conservative MP who has forgotten his microphone was still on during a late-night videoconference port drinking party said something equivalent to "now Cornwall, [noise obscures speech] , we go to their second homes there but we don't understand their societies, they aren't like us we might as well be in [redacted]. We should help the seagulls evolve back into dinosaurs over time"


Friday, 27 March 2020

Dinosaur - Arghpedrevan

In Gerlyver Meur, the word given for "dinosaur" is 'arghpedrevan'. This is also the word used in the standard written form online dictionary

'pedrevan' is the word for "lizard" and relates to its behaviour of walking on all fours. However modern paleontology has placed the dinosaurs much closer to modern birds, and even will refer to the former as "non-avian dinosaurs" and "avian dinosaurs". It was formerly thought that the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, but it is now thought the "non-avian dinosaurs" became extinct 66 million years ago.





The English-Cornish dictionary of Nicholas Williams offers:







Welsh uses dinosor:


More recently words for "avian dinosaur" and "non-avian dinosaur" are on termau.cymru#dinosaur

Therefore in Cornish, the following could perhaps be offered? I am assuming that the SWF would use dinosor rather than the spelling dinosaur.


  • Avian dinosaur - 'dinosor edhnek' 
  • Non-avian dinosaur - 'dinosor anedhnek'