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I overheard someone saying something like 'with tree, pole and pen, so will you know Cornish men' (??). What were they on about? I'm from Cornwall and I've never heard that rhyme before.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's not tree, pole and pen it's 'tre, pol and pen' - three common prefixes in Cornish names and place names.
For example, Pen means headland and Dynas is Castle so if you translate Pendennis Castle, it says Headland Castle Castle.
Tester's unpleasant ramblings will offend 40,000 Cornishmen. He'd better watch it.
There's an article on the Cornish language at article 1654