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Dialect Quiz No.3 - Meaning of some Cornish dialect words

Instructions: For each item in the left column enter the number of the corresponding item in the right column. If the number you enter is correct, the right answer will be copied to the adjacent box. Otherwise a "sad faced smiley" will appear in that space. NOBODY wants to deal with a "sad faced smiley"!

When all the boxes are correctly filled in, the screen will change color to show its manic enthusiasm.

The first item is done for you as an example. Some items in the list on the right may be used more than once or not used at all.

This quiz is for your own practice only; no record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.


Example:
Dinsul 
St. Michael's Mount

   
Blowth
Croggan
Crow
Durns
Hagglan
Hollensmoks
Muryans
Padgypaow
Polan
Quilkin
Rare-mouse
Scow or Scaow
Tags
1. A Frog
2. A lizard or Newt
3. A salt water pool
4. A sty, Pigs crow
5. Ants
6. St. Michael's Mount
7. Blossom ; in flower
8. Limpet shell
9. Narcissi(Mount)
10. The Bat
11. The Elder Tree
12. The frame of a door
13. The Hawthorn
14. The sea campion


Possible points: 13

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