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June/July 2009
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In this issue of Cornish World:

Wish You Were Here - a history of Cornwall through postcards

Done Up Like A Tantony Pig
- Cornish parish nicknames revealed

Second Home For All - are second homes killing Cornish communities?

Raise A Glass - the Cornish breweries beating the recession

Changes on a Headland - how we note nature's changes on a Cornish clifftop

Heritage Under Threat - how Portugal is learning from Cornwall's mine management

Countryside pursuits - fishing for fun and food

Legal Advice Made Easy - how to protect your company with your will

Titanic Tales - the Cornish who perished on that fateful night

Paul - where heritage comes alive

Cornish family history, Jean Harry, poetry, power kiting, dialect, stories, Kernewek, arts, events and lots more news, views and information for anyone with an interest in Cornwall.

Oh, and another really funny foreword...
June/July 2009
New articles...
Look out, the Falmouth Trollops are coming to Shagtown...
Pete London explores the colourful connotations of some Cornish parish nicknames.
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A list of Cornish parish nicknames...
List of Cornish parish nicknames (thanks to the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies' journal Old Cornwall and thanks in particular to Michael Tangye/Whythrer Meyn, Redruth Old Cornwall Society)

Brea Cuckoos
Breage Strangers
Bude Mules
Buryan Boars
Bodmin Shoe Makers
Carn Brea Nannygoats
Camborne Merygeeks
Carnkie Blackbirds
Chacewater Scat-ups
Churchtown Nannygoats
Chyandour Scads
Connor Crows
Constantine Pilchards
Coverack Braves
Crowan Crows
Cury Crows
Egloskerry Rough Head...

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