>>>>>>that sense of otherness (I speak as a Londoner) is as strong in the South-Western counties of England as it is in Wales.
I haven't spent enough time in the South Western counties to comment on that, and I don't know their history (except "twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why" and I don't know its context). Do those counties have such well recorded princedoms as Wales has? Apart from the improved transport I've mentioned, there is also the fact that I've heard people in South Wales say that they wish that Welsh was spoken as much in South Wales as in Caernarfon and on Anglesey I don't think that would have been said 20 years ago.
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Date: 2007-06-10 12:50 pm (UTC)I haven't spent enough time in the South Western counties to comment on that, and I don't know their history (except "twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why" and I don't know its context). Do those counties have such well recorded princedoms as Wales has?
Apart from the improved transport I've mentioned, there is also the fact that I've heard people in South Wales say that they wish that Welsh was spoken as much in South Wales as in Caernarfon and on Anglesey
I don't think that would have been said 20 years ago.