Ken George

Who is Ken George?

Kenneth "Ken" J. George, is a British oceanographer, poet, and linguist noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, an orthography for the Cornish language supporters claimed to be more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor. This claim has been challenged from time to time. Kernewek Kemmyn was introduced in 1987. A report commissioned by the Government Office of the South West states that it is used by the majority of the Cornish-speaking community, although this finding is disputed by proponents of other spelling systems. 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.

George has published over eighty items relating to Celtic linguistics, including several dictionaries of Cornish. His edition of the recently discovered Middle Cornish play Bewnans Ke was published by the Cornish Language Board in May 2006.