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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 8h

It must be April somewhere in the world...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Italians mistakenly identify as Roma in Scotland's census

Italians born in Rome may have accidently selected the Roma ethnicity category in the country's last census, officials say.

www.bbc.com

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 9h

Right, enough is enough. This is the only flag I want to see. All the other flags are for flag shaggers.

As a bonus, you get to see a beautiful white horse.

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 9h

Badenoch: Let's build this country together.

Rest of the country: You had 14 years to destroy it.

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 5d

Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland.

theconversation.com/book-of-kell...

Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland

While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book offers some clues as to its provenance.

theconversation.com

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 5d

I have literally just done the same. I left the other place because of the outrageously disgusting anti-Muslim posts which were allowed to take hold, and fear I'll be doing the same with this place because of the anti-Semitic ones. What a world.

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 5d

Looking at the comments here, this place is just as bad as X. What abhorrent, scummy individuals there are about, making light of tragedy.

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Kowethas @kowethas.bsky.social · 6d

Lyvrow bardhonieth dhiwyethek kavadow der agan gwerthji. Bilingual poetry books available through our shop. #nationalpoetryday

Howlsplann an Myttin a Dhehwel/The Morning Sunshine Returns - Graham Sandercock
Pan dheuth an Glaw/When the Rain Came - Tony Snell

cornish-language.org/product-cate...

Howlsplann an Myttin a Dhehwel by Graham Sandercock

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Mab Stenek Veur @mabstenekveur.bsky.social · 8d

Bord du y'n Tavern Koth yn Eglosvelyan - pur dha

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Kowethas @kowethas.bsky.social · 6d

Lyvrow bardhonieth dhiwyethek kavadow lemmyn der agan gwerthji. Bilingual poetry books available now through our shop. #nationalpoetryday

Gwedrow-Mires - Lianne Wilson
Termynyow a Dheu/Coming Times - Tim Saunders

cornish-language.org/product-cate...

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 7d

Distributions of endings in Swedish place names

#RStats #DataViz

A map of Sweden in 10 different panels, each showing the proportional frequency of different place name endings in various shades of blue

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 15d

Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I'm in awe of young Finns- I wish my country had this desire to read in other languages.. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

www.theguardian.com

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 22d

Despite popular belief, Cornish continued to be spoken as a living language in the 19th century....

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer

Author of new book suggests Kernewek continued to be spoken in the 19th century, albeit in ‘tiny numbers’

www.theguardian.com

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

I remember seeing these more often when I was a kid, growing up in West Kent and going to the horse shows at the Hop Farm.

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 25d

Horses have been adorned with shiny objects for centuries. It's thought horses were very susceptible to a witch's 'evil eye' so they adorned them with brasses to dazzle and deflect their power. Migrating Romany gypsies who were thought to have introduced horse brasses to Britain in the 18th C. 🐴

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

Glad the building's name has been changed back to the only (Welsh) name it was ever known by.

But whoever originally thought the change was acceptable in an area which has 72.5% Welsh speakers needs a bit of training.

#cymraeg

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Welsh language U-turn after 'disrespectful' rebranding of manor house

Plas Bodegroes, an 18th Century manor house, had been marketed as Bromfield Hall.

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

Mis Gwynngala - September

mis - month
gwynn - white
kala - straw

Cognate with 'Gwengolo' in Breton.

#Kernow #Kernewek #languages

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

Imagine having to translate the headlines....

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

Also, the Daily Fail has absolutely no knowledge of the English language either. Yes, emmets can be used to mean tourists, but it isn't a Cornish word. Emmet is found in many areas of England, and in Kent an ammut-cast (emmet-cast) is an ant-hill (anyone been to Emmetts Hill?).

#Kernow #Kent

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

The Daily Fail really is a scourge on the country. Constant anti-Celtic articles and little understanding of the UK, just articles to create division. Why use the word 'comeuppance'? How dare locals want a better life for themselves and their children.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Is Cornwall getting its comeuppance?

Despite £2billion being injected into their economies every summer, residents have moaned that holidaymakers were a 'nightmare' and made their communities ' hell on earth'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 24d

Yma edhom dhe Gernow a dhigresennans gwir!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Demonstration in Cornwall calls for devolved parliament - BBC News

Organisers of the demonstration in Truro says Cornwall does not have to be "England's Holiday park".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · 29d

I saw on a post that someone had described this morning as 'a proper hopping morning', bringing back memories of growing up in Kent. There used to be lots of hop picking vocabulary in the local vernacular, and we still use words like 'oast', 'hop garden', which I believe are different elsewhere.

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · Sep 8

Moscow Dropping ‘Native Language’ and ‘Native Literature’ from Required Course List of School Programs as of 2026-2027 School Year.

mariuveren.wordpress.com

MariUver

Site about Maris, Mari El, Finno-Ugric and other Indigenous Peoples of Russia

mariuveren.wordpress.com

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Mike @ksmikey.bsky.social · Aug 31

Learn Pennsylvania Deutsch

(Gratis)

hiwwe-wie-driwwe.com/category/mir...

Mir lanne deitsch – Hiwwe wie Driwwe

Posts about Mir lanne deitsch written by Michael Werner

hiwwe-wie-driwwe.com

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Niwlen Ster 〓〓 @niwlenster.bsky.social · Aug 30

Help us be the 20,000 Cornish bold who 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 know the reason why: sign, share, share again (you'd be surprised how few people saw it the first time).
nation.cymru/news/petitio... #Cornwall

Petition calling for Cornwall to gain nation status closes on symbolic milestone

A petition calling on the UK Government to recognise Cornwall as a nation — alongside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — has gained more than 19,000 signatures. The campaign, which follow...

nation.cymru

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Alex an Sows @ansows.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am not now saving all the books and documents there are on Scribd about Tamazight, I promise! 😅

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