Ken George
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Ken George is an oceanographer noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, a revised spelling for the Cornish language intended to be more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor (Unified Cornish). This claim has been challenged from time to time. Kernewek Kemmyn was introduced at the end of the 1980's and now appears to be used by the majority of the Cornish-speaking community. A report commissioned by the Government Office of the South West[1] also suggests this, although proponents of other spelling systems dispute its accuracy. Since the 1990s, Kernewek Kemmyn has been sharply criticized by Nicholas Williams and some other academics. Others, such as Richard Gendall, have preferred to ignore Kernewek Kemmyn and instead base revived Cornish on Late Cornish. George has published several dictionaries of Cornish, and various other linguistic as well as oceanographical works. His edition of the recently-discovered Middle Cornish play Bewnans Ke, titled in Kernewek Kemmyn Bywnans Ke, was published by the Cornish Language Board in May 2006.[2]
George lives in Southeast Cornwall, and speaks Breton and French as well as English and Cornish. George was formerly the Principal Lecturer in Ocean Science in the Institute of Marine Studies at the University of Plymouth.
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