Brithenig/Aelyan North America (was: Re: LanguagesintheBrithenig universe)

Matt Pearson wrote:

> >Wouldn't be much room for Mormonism in Utah, or in the There Universe?
> >Racking (or is it _wracking_) my meagre general knowledge,
Missed this one before.  "Racking", as in the instrument of torture.
"Wrack" is the noun form of "wreak", allied to "wreck", and is best used only in
"sea-wrack" and "cloud-wrack".

> >I thought
> >Mormonism was born in the Lancashire cotton mills (perhaps not too far
> >from the university where I teach)
>
> No, actually Mormonism was born in the United States (upstate New
> York, to be precise) in the 1820s or 1830s (can't remember).
Yes.

> Dirk could tell you better than I when Mormonism was first carried
> overseas to Europe (late 19th c., I'm thinking).
Earlier than that; there were English recruits well before the move
to Utah, if not to Illinois.

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