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The book presents a record, in the form of an extended and descriptive glossary, of the everyday conversational dialect used by the pupils at the Port Isaac County Primary School in the North Cornwall of the late 1940s. It additionally pays tribute to the traditions of the enduring village community of the day and the characters who made it what it was, illustrating their peerless vein of wit, humour and expression with examples of conversation, anecdotes and rhymes.
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The language spoken among the pupils of the Port Isaac County Primary School in North Cornwall in the late 1940s incorporated a dialect as full, rich and rounded as clotted cream. The accent of delivery was slow, open and rolling, not unlike the steady swell of the mighty Atlantic washing against the rugged slate coastline of Port Isaac Bay. Its characteristics owed a tribute to the enduring traditions of an isolated coastal community, yet for all that its stature was vibrant with the additive benefits of the natural evolution that comes from steady usage. Under pressure from the social, mobility and media revolutions of later years, rural backwaters like Port Isaac have tended to lose their uniqueness, one clear result being the demise of local dialect, which slipped away piecemeal in the grip of time, its departure barely noticed until it was complete. This book records that Port Isaac dialect of latter days, focussed on its wonderful vein of wit, humour and expression, now long gone, but ever worthy in memory.
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Anyone who knows what cuzzy-muzzies are and where to find them will experience this book as a happy journey down Memory Lane, even after sixty years and a complete change in direction from James' first two books about this unique little pearl on the north coast of Kernow. We are all looking forward to his fourth!
Those of you who have never seen a cuzzy-muzzy should ask a local when they visit the village and enjoy a few hours scratching around on Port Gaverne beach. This book provides a written record of a dialect which no longer exists and which was perhaps, itself, an echo of something much much older. It is fun to read and gives the reader snapshots of village life at that time.
As well as "East of Varley Head and South of Lobber Point", those of you who enjoy reading this book might also want to read "The Fishermen of Port Isaac" Vol. One by Geoff Provis and "The Horse of Pride" (Life in a Breton Village) by Pierre-Jakez Helias covering the period 1918-1939 and translated directly from Breton into English. (Winner of a 1978 Christopher Award and nominated for a 1979 National Award in Translation).
Those of you who have never seen a cuzzy-muzzy should ask a local when they visit the village and enjoy a few hours scratching around on Port Gaverne beach. This book provides a written record of a dialect which no longer exists and which was perhaps, itself, an echo of something much much older. It is fun to read and gives the reader snapshots of village life at that time.
As well as "East of Varley Head and South of Lobber Point", those of you who enjoy reading this book might also want to read "The Fishermen of Port Isaac" Vol. One by Geoff Provis and "The Horse of Pride" (Life in a Breton Village) by Pierre-Jakez Helias covering the period 1918-1939 and translated directly from Breton into English. (Winner of a 1978 Christopher Award and nominated for a 1979 National Award in Translation).
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