>> Le 01/09/2012 18:57, Athel Cornish-Bowden a écrit :
>>> On 2012-09-01 15:57:04 +0000, Lewis said:
>>>
>>>> In message <
FcSdnSE56O2lONzN...@vex.net>
>>>> Mark Brader <
m...@vex.net> wrote:
>>>>> Jerry Friedman:
>>>>>> Imagine the yell that comes from an area known in French as
>>>>>> Cornouaille. How is it spelt?
>>>>
>>>>> Well, I suppose Cornouaille is Cornwall, but that's all I have.
>>>>
>>>> Brittany, I thought.
>>>
>>> Cornuaille is certainly a part of Brittany, and Cornouailles is the
>>> French for the English county of similar name, but it doesn't get us
>>> closer to the answer.
>>>
>>> Or maybe it does: what about "whimper"? (There is indeed a town in
>>> Brittany called Quimper (no h), bt I don't remember if it's in
>>> Cornouaille.)
>>
>> Quimper is in Cornouaille, I had relative who lived there.
>> There is even a festival de Cornouaille where you can
>> hear Breton music. You can "enjoy" binious and chouchenn,
>> do you know that one?
>
> Maybe we're getting closer: "That is the way the world ends; not with a
> bang but a whimper". I had forgotten that these lines were by T. S.
> Eliot -- I thought they were from some physicist. Anyway, Quimper isn't
> exactly "where the world ends" (Brest would be better, and some
> vilages no one has heard of better still), but it's certainly in
> Finistère, which can loosely be taken to mean where the worls ends. I
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