About: Rod Lyon

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Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of "Tewennow". His involvement in Cornish matters revolves mainly around the development of the Cornish language, which includes work on the radio and writing. He sits on the Cornish Language Board, the Cornish Esedhvos (equivalent to the Welsh Eisteddfod) and various committees within and associated with the Gorseth.Lyon can be heard at 5pm every Sunday reading the news in Cornish on BBC Radio Cornwall.

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  • رود ليون (بالإنجليزية: Rod Lyon)‏ هو مهندس وصحفي وكاتب بريطاني، ولد في القرن العشرين في كورنوال في المملكة المتحدة. (ar)
  • Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of "Tewennow". His involvement in Cornish matters revolves mainly around the development of the Cornish language, which includes work on the radio and writing. He sits on the Cornish Language Board, the Cornish Esedhvos (equivalent to the Welsh Eisteddfod) and various committees within and associated with the Gorseth.Lyon can be heard at 5pm every Sunday reading the news in Cornish on BBC Radio Cornwall. He has long been an active writer of fiction and non-fiction in and about the Cornish language. Some notable works of fiction include Dhe Emlow an Galaksi, Dicky Holla, and Tenkys, and non-fiction works include Cornish - The Struggle for Survival and Colloquial Doesn't Mean Corrupt: Observations on contemporary Revived Cornish. These works display Lyon's idiolectal Cornish. (en)
  • Rod Lyon (Newquay, 13 gennaio 1936) è un ingegnere, scrittore e giornalista britannico, tra i massimi esponenti della lingua cornica scritta e parlata. Jim and Billy, da L'isola del tesoro di R.L. Stevenson. (it)
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  • رود ليون (بالإنجليزية: Rod Lyon)‏ هو مهندس وصحفي وكاتب بريطاني، ولد في القرن العشرين في كورنوال في المملكة المتحدة. (ar)
  • Rod Lyon (Newquay, 13 gennaio 1936) è un ingegnere, scrittore e giornalista britannico, tra i massimi esponenti della lingua cornica scritta e parlata. Jim and Billy, da L'isola del tesoro di R.L. Stevenson. (it)
  • Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of "Tewennow". His involvement in Cornish matters revolves mainly around the development of the Cornish language, which includes work on the radio and writing. He sits on the Cornish Language Board, the Cornish Esedhvos (equivalent to the Welsh Eisteddfod) and various committees within and associated with the Gorseth.Lyon can be heard at 5pm every Sunday reading the news in Cornish on BBC Radio Cornwall. (en)
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  • رود ليون (ar)
  • Rod Lyon (it)
  • Rod Lyon (en)
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