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In Breton 'bread' is bara, and I think it is the same in Welsh. If Cornish, Welsh and Breton are all of the same family wouldn't the word for bread be similar? Correct me if I'm wrong! Lembs could be some kind of dialect word (drawn no doubt from the Cornish language) for 'bits'.
As an aside, I read in Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent that he was travelling through a quite desolate part of Michigan when he saw a sign advertising Cornish Pasties and intrigued had to go and find out more. It is obviously an area with a history of immigration from Cornwall. And there is a tale that the pasties were made with a savoury filling at one end and a sweet one at the other; the pastry was made deliberately tough as it was not meant to be eaten, being there merely to protect the contents from the toxins encountered in the mines.
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