Ska köpa en matta. Vill då såklart köpa en äkta matta! Inte en fejkmatta.
(Kan tycka att detta borde gälla de flesta saker man köper, att de ska va äkta o inte fake. Men för mattor finns tydligen massa fejkmattor (?))

Nu blev detta lite tramsigt men det är en seriös fråga. Hur vet man om mattan e äkta? (jag vill ha en äkta)

#matta #ÄktaMatta

In the 1800s some surnames found in Cornwall helped to reinforce the myth of a Mediterranean origin for the Cornish, as multiple examples of names ending in -o, -oe or -ow seemed to hint strongly at Spanish antecedents. This was a romantic assumption with appeal to visitors and natives alike and was reinforced by other names such as Jose or Eva. It was a notion that sat comfortably with parallel claims of early visits by Phoenicians seeking tin, traders rather than tourists.

In fact, the Cornish did not need to look southwards for their origin. Their surnames were created closer to home although they indeed the product of a foreign language. That language was Cornish, almost as alien and as little understood as Spanish to most people in Victorian Cornwall.

The Cornish language revivalist Robert Morton Nance argued that names such as Clemo, Kitto, Hollow or Sandow had roots in Old Cornish, echoes of Celtic first names such as Cato, Winwaloe or Iudico. The -ow suffix was what he called an ‘ancient adjectival ending’ meaning ‘the family of’. However, this may over-complicate matters.

By the 15th and 16th centuries when a number of such names were being coined, memories of the Old Cornish names of the 11th century and earlier must have been dim, to say the least. It may be more significant that the suffix -ow was added to many words in the Cornish language to form a plural, the equivalent of the English -s, for example egloz/eglezow (church/churches) or mean/meanow (stone/stones).

To a Cornish-speaker the surname Benetto was therefore a straightforward equivalent of the English Bennetts. Similarly, Higow was Hicks, Mathow Matthew, Sandow Sanders (from Alexander). Many others were less obvious – names such as Dogow (pronounced Dodgow and possibly from Roger), Daddow (Davy/David?), Leggo, Manow, Mellow, Perrow, or Vingoe. Meanwhile, the most commonly occurring surname with an -ow suffix was Pascoe, at this time a first name in its own right. Such surnames are classed as patronymics, formed from a first name. They were also almost entirely restricted in the early 1500s to the Cornish-speaking mid and western parts of Cornwall as a combined map of the names mentioned in this paragraph shows.

There were some exceptions. The distribution of Jago, often linked to James but possibly a name in its own right, was skewed more towards east than west Cornwall and suggests a different and earlier origin. This is even more the case with Kittow, which wasn’t found west of Bodmin in the early 16th century tax listings. Mayow was another surname encountered more often in east than west Cornwall.

Moreover, by no means all surnames ending in -o or -ow were patronymics. Many were formed from place-names. Bosanko, Bosustow, Colenso, Crago, Dustow, Gummow, Kellow and Spargo are all examples. In addition, sometimes the ending -ow became -a, as in Matta from Mathow, Penna from Pennow or Hicka from Higow. These overlapped with surnames that had never or rarely been found as -ow and had a differing history, such as Jacka, Rodda and Tomma.

But I’ll leave the surnames with an -a ending for the next time.

Distribution maps of most of the surnames mentioned above can be found here. Further details of most of these names can also be found in my The Surnames of Cornwall.

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https://bernarddeacon.com/2024/10/28/cornish-cultural-distinctiveness-surnames-with-an-ow-suffix/

#Benetto #Clemo #Daddow #Dogow #Higow #Hollow #Jago #Kittow #Leggo #Manow #Matta #Mayow #Mellow #Pascoe #Pennow #Perrow #Sandow #Vingoe

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Un article passionnant (en Anglais) qui explore les limites de ce qu'est l'architecture : un travail d'artiste ? Un service ? Une profession de cour ? Un clos-couvert ? Une ruine parasitée ?

Une démarche et des réflexions qui résonnent étrangement avec celles d'Adolf #Loos, de Gordon #Matta-Clark et #ClaudeParent.
#architecture #architecturaltheory #kanye #ye #tadaoando #jamesturrell

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/kanye-west-tadao-ando-beach-house-malibu

(Merci Anna Lucas pour la découverte)