Crossword-Solution: OWNA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This man desperately wounded at Najou, near Shanghai; that one wounded in two places at Owna, in Persia; this one with a sleeve emptied at Aroga, in Abyssinia--who among us remember aught, if, indeed, we have ever heard, of Najou, Owna, or Aroga? On the breast of this bent, hoary old man, note these strange emblems, the Cross of San Fernando and the Order of the Tower and Sword.

Joseph Loth, Doyen of the Faculty of Letters in Rennes University, who probably know more about Cornish between them than any one else ever did, the writer may well say, as John Boson of Newlyn said of Keigwin two centuries ago, “_Markressa an dean deskez fear-na gwellaz hemma_, _ev a venja kavaz fraga e owna en skreefa-composter_, _etc._” {0c} For, indeed, even in that same _skreefa-composter_ is there much scope for argument, and Boson’s “et cetera” stands for a good deal besides.

For is it not written by the great moralist Karbara Ekken in the _Owna Dargaku_, “It was the custom of the ancients, on the birth of a female child, to let it lie on the floor for the space of three days.