biography
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Ogden, C(harles) K(ay)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1957)
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| biography:
| Linguistic reformer, born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied classics at Cambridge, was founder-editor of the Cambridge Magazine (1912–22), and founder in 1917 of the Orthological Institute. In the 1920s he conceived the idea of ‘Basic English’, a simplified system of English as an international language with a restricted vocabulary of 850 words, which he developed with the help of I A Richards. |
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