Asking Locals In Cornwall How To Pronounce Their Village Name…
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- I have lived In West Cornwall for 5 years and I still have absolutely no idea whether you pronounce Praa Sands as 'Praa or Pray'! It seems to change with every local you speak to. I decided I had had enough of this confusion, so I ventured down to the beach to ask literally everyone I bumped into how they say it! This is the outcome...
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I've lived in Cornwall with my better half since 2018 and we both say Pray!! We both came to Cornwall as children so feel blessed to be living here now. Keep up the great work, love your videos.
Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoy the content 🙏
When I was a teenager there were 2 ends prah sands and prae sands . These were denoted by actual signposts at each end. This in later years became praa sands and Newtown but still denotes the different areas of one place. Sennan had a similar scenario with the covers and those that lived on the cliff tops and rivalry between them often great.
💯 Pray Sands……in our family & we go back more generations in Conwall than I can count! I’m sad that the old traditions appear to be fading - Pray all the way 👍👍👍
A fantastic Upload again pal, and Something different. I think the old guy hit the nail on the head when the Celtic spelling was prah (pronounced prey), hence why the older Cornish generation use the correct spelling. As a frequent visitor to Cornwall, i will now pronounce it prey. I respect tradition. 👍
Great comment John
Oh wow! Just been watching through your videos, amazingly you was there when I was, that's my grey ambulance camper in the carpark. 😂 love it
From childhood in Penzance we called it Prey Sands. As did my grandparents. As I think you point out, us elders call it Prey! 😊
My Nana and Grandpa lived on Trewartha Road. As kids were were lucky enough to spend every school holiday in Praa Sands, our mum was a teacher! Fifty years later I still go down as often as I can.
Pray. Definitely.
Hi Wendall, great video, I've always called it Praa, while being aware that the traditional correct pronunciation is Pray. Either way it's a beautiful beach. I remember the first time I ever went there, almost exactly 50 years ago, I was 18 and walking the coast path and sleeping rough in a sleeping bag. I spent the night near Rinsey I think, and wandered over to Prah Sands looking for breakfast. There was a small caravan selling food so I asked for a cup of tea and a sausage roll. They explained that everything was vegetarian and the sausage roll was made of fake veggie sausage, a novel idea at the time! But I tried it anyway and it was the most delicious sausage roll I'd ever tasted, and I still remember it fondly 50 years later! Many thanks.
It’s actually these little snippets that give you a real insight into a place. Always excellent stuff
I aim to educate and inform Steve, Yamas!
@@WendallExplores and you do with a plom! Greece is also my favourite country try. Your Athens trip was immense. Would love to see you going to the islands. My fave place would suit you - Skopelos. Can’t fly in so it retains a particular feeling. Pretty sure you’d love it. You could even fly into Skiathos to get the ferry - scary landing right up your inquisitive Street Oli
@@Rdw7856 I’m sure I’ll film more Greek islands one day. More travels next week, stay tuned!
Good stuff Mate, Looks a bit chilly late June. Prey Sands.
Beltin June day in Cornwall that Trev 🤣
Point of clarification: At about 5:06 in the video, you talked about getting a job. Proper use of the English language while strolling along the beaches and hamlets of Cornwall is your job! A very respectable occupation and greatly appreciated by all! Thanks and keep up the great work.
It don’t pay like a proper job 🤣
@@WendallExplores I was in business with a partner for about 10 years. We scratched and scraped barely getting by. We didn't really get paid till the end when we sold. Doing it on your own never parallels the standard 9 to 5. Hang in there, it will happen.
Ask a Cornish person born and bred and they will say ‘Pray’. As a child we used to laugh at the Emmets calling it Prah.
praa comes from polwragh meaning wrasse cove, also the old maps spell it prah so im not sure bout that
I’m In the Praa camp as that’s what I’ve been told anyway this week I’ve been up to Fort William then over to Isle of Skye… I’m like Vicky took over the map reading 🥾 🏔 Amazing place!
Praa sands .... spent many happy hours in The Sand Bar. Love that place.
My family is local to Praa Sands and has been for well over a hundred years. In fact, my mother's house was visible in your video. So I feel qualified to let you know that the definitive pronunciation is Pray Sands. Having said that, when I went to school up the road in Helston, I regularly had to correct classmates who incorrectly used Prah.
I will take that as the definitive conclusion 👍
praa was built in the thirties how can that be true
😂😂😂@@kernowbysvyken5600
Thank you for educating me. I'll be there in a couple of weeks and I think I will say Pray - not to offend elderly people 😂 (...being elderly myself and want to blend in 😂)
I think Pray is the safe bet
When we first came to Praa Sands over 60 years ago calling it Prah Sands, we were corrected by a local old lady who was a member of the Cornish Gorsedd that it was Pray Sands so we duly changed to that, only to realise she was calling it Prair Sands! These days I always say Praa Sands but when abbreviating and leaving out the Sands refer to it as Prah.
Mate ive always wondered how its said and I often change between the two. I definitely hear the older generation say "Pray" more often
You wait till you ask how you say 'Launceston'! It'll blow your mind😅
'Praa', probably, but my uncle would say pray. I grew up in Bolingey and that always threw the tourists. Halzephron always gets me. Its definitely a potato/potato, tomato/tomato thing
I thought it was Prah😁👍I actually like the thought of them being pray sands.
Enjoyed that. I’m still calling it Praa though. Give it 20 years and pray sands will be a thing of the past
I think there will be a hardcore few that keep pray alive
Will go with PRAA. Everytime i am there i PRAY for a fat bank account and a thin body but God always gets it the other way around.
Think its a Scone/Scon thing really.
Good seeing Cornwall again in the Vid as i back in Excile in CH for another year.
Thanks for the video
Enjoy CH, cheers Clive!
I pray you’re right Ollie 😂 praa for me
Definitely Pray. PZ born and raised.
I think the argument between praa or pray doesn’t really matter, what matters is it isn’t The bloody West Midlands 🤣… great bud buddy 👍
Matters to the locals it seems, I’m switching to pray!
I'm sticking with praa sands
i say praa but my old man says pray! he is a northerner mind!!
It's Pray Sands. Love Sundays is from up country so what does he know. 😆😆😆
Apparently no one knows!
@@WendallExplores All the true locals especially older ones call it Pray Sands but in the great scheme of things etc. 😉
@@WendallExplores Go around the local farmers. 😉
@@Sidchasingclassiccars no ones that brave
There was once a hotel just down from the post office which sign said "Prah Sands Hotel and Bar" with an H on the end. We always said Praa but I think the true Cornish way is Pray Sands. And I was always under the impression that the word "Praa" was an old Cornish word for Hag or Witch 🧙♀️.
Witch Sands 👻 😮
@@WendallExplores I do believe it was known as Hag (or Witch) cove.
praa comes from polwragh meaning wrasse cove
@@kernowbysvyken5600 My previous reply was based on talking to a very old local man when I visited with my eldest son in 2002.
Pirate fm say praa sands when they're doing the rides and surf report, so... 🤷🏻♂️
pray 🙏
Yamas
I'd Pray for the right answer but I'm an atheist so that wouldn't work! 😄
Are there any locals left to ask?
I pray there is 🙏
You scared them all away Fred
@@WendallExplores Far too many tourists, 2nd homes, airBandB and holiday lets has done that. Nowhere for local people to live meaning staff shortages for the low paid, seasonal work tourism provides.
@@TheBuckspygmy but the local people sold there homes to the tourists, resulting in Cornwall becoming driven by tourism they got greedy and sold there properties for extortionate amounts, they could have done right right thing and sold there homes to locals, but instead saw cash signs.
@@craig3784 That is a myth home ownership by Cornish people has been historically low because they lived in company owned homes.
They did not own homes to sell.
So your in pray sands looking for locals ?(there are none).. Or your in pra sands talking to people that have moved there to live and don't use there house as a holiday let ?(blow ins)
And its bus, not buzz 😉
Not in Wolvo where I was dragged up Nick
It's also buzz in Wigan lol
We Brits are funny buggers with our varied accents and pronunciations. Long may it continue🤣, divided by a common language, as we used to say about us and the Americans. Or me in Porkellis and those bastards in Carnkie who pronounce it differently
dont like it there either to snobby
Where do you like?
@@WendallExplores i dunno i suppose penzance ,reduth,lanner,st just sancreed,, but i prefer germany
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Is the beach in praa sands nice? What is the best beach in Cornwall in your opinion? Im thinking of going there next week
there are no locals they cant afford to live there cheapest house is half a million