Borlase's document, called Memorandums of the Cornish Tongue, from 1750, is described as an "early example of a Cornish grammar and vocabulary study which resembles a Cornish dictionary".
Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.