Interesting Facts

You've heard of the Welsh, the Irish and the Scots, well say hello to the Cornish. (Not the pasty, the people. Cornwall has won recognition as a national minority. Flag - St Piran Language - Cornish Nationality - Cornish In the census of 2011, 84,000 people declaree themselves “Cornish”, but only 557 people claim that the Celtic dialect is their main language, although there are now dual-language street signs throughout the county. I don't think you can call yourself Cornish, if you can't speak Cornish. There should be a test.) Oh look!  There is! Can you tell the difference between Dothraki and Cornish? http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/dothraki-or-cornish-can-you-tell-the-difference

'Yogh', pronounced "yog", is a letter in old English and Scots which has no exact equivalent today. It used to be written a bit like the old copperplate-style "z" (it looked like a 3), helps explain the discrepancy between the spelling of Menzies and the pronunciation "Mingis". The rise of printing in the 16th Century coincided with the decline of the yogh, and so it tended to be rendered in print as a "z", and pronounced as such. (This means that newsagent John Menzies is more properly pronounced John Ming-iss.)