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1 Oct 2024 07:19:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The ancient Cornish invented binary  
From: M a r c
Date: 10 Apr 2008 16:33:15
Message: <47fe798b$1@news.povray.org>

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>I was in Cornwall the last couple of days and made this interesting 
>discovery.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/halberth/2399284168/
>
> --
browsing through your Cornwall gallery, I saw that: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halberth/2399229188/in/set-72157604435867598/
'Men an tol' certainly means the 'stone with a hole' in Cornish.
In Breton (the local language of my country, Brittany) it is 'Men an toul'

Marc


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