Mark Steel’s In Town

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Mark Steel. Mark Steel’s In Town

Mark Steel’s. In Town

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

Penzance

New Towns: Basingstoke, Crawley, Milton Keynes

Birmingham

Didcot, Oxford

Wilmslow

Wigan

Horwich

London

Outer London *

Hereford

Norwich

Boston

Surrey

Merthyr Tydfil

Edinburgh

Orkney

Dumfries

Andersonstown

Colchester

Exeter

Portland

Motorways

Yorkshire

Nottingham

Coventry

Walsall

Lewes

Gateshead

Kent

Bristol

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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This book is dedicated to all the people

who’ve lived in history, in towns or other places,

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By the seventeenth century Cornish had mostly died out. But since the 1930s there’s been a movement to revive it, and now about two hundred people speak it. I got a book called Teach Yourself Cornish from the Penzance library, and the librarian said, ‘Would you like book two as well?’ which seemed a bit optimistic Anyway, even a militant Cornishman only needs a few essential phrases, like ‘Ogh! Ni re settyas an gempenoryon-gols gans tan dre wall,’ which translates as, ‘Oh no, we’ve set the hair-dressers on fire by mistake.’

Cornish is a Gaelic language, similar to Welsh and Irish and Breton, and now there’s an English-Cornish dictionary, a novel’s been written in Cornish, and there’s a weekly Cornish radio show, which is impressive for two hundred people. I imagine the radio show must have dialogue such as:

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