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Kilen aa King.

Murdering the King's English.

A defiant nickname islanders gave their own Norf'k speech after 1915 school rules banned it from the classroom in favour of standard English; now recalled as a badge of the language's survival.

Traditional Norf'k Wisdom, Norfolk Island

Source: Norfolk Online News, "The Fascination of the Norfolk Language" — documented Norf'k school-era term

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