spellings emmit, emit) is a word in the Cornish dialect of English that is used to refer to tourists or holidaymakers coming to Cornwall.
The Cornish word for ants is actually moryon (singulative moryonen) [3][4][5] Porthemmet is a beach that supposedly can only be accessed via a cave found between Harlyn and St Merryn.
In August 2007, Truro-born Jonty Haywood began promoting a fictional Porthemmet (Port of Emmet)(also sometimes Emmet Bay) beach in North Cornwall with fake road signs and a hoax website, which directed people to random areas on the north coast, confusing tourists and amusing locals.
[citation needed] In August 2021 a number of incidents were reported in which the word 'emmet' was used pejoratively in graffiti across Cornwall.
[10] At Pedn Vounder beach the phrase 'Emmets go home' was spray-painted onto rocks, whilst 'Die emmets' appeared on the welcome sign to the town of Hayle.