HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rebecca Riots, Whale Oil, Spoken Language
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Died out as a spoken language at least in the 19th century, possibly earlier. The rise of printing meant that cornish could be written down even if people were no longer using it in daily life. Could help preserve small languages so they could at least be used later. Tendency to see it in terms of quaintness, but was also significant industrial region for a long time. Deposits of tin and copper that were mined at least since roman times. Miners with significant experience, but nowhere to mine. End up in different areas to mine, california, Pasty from cornish, kind of like a pie. Strongly linked to ireland and england economically but not formally part of either. Frequently used as a film set as ireland. Cornwall, not just an island lost in time. Some women got the vote, isle of man gave women property owners a vote in 1881 on the basis no taxation without representation.
