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C K Ogden
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Born in Fleetwood, Lancashire
Born on 1st of June 1889
Died in 1957

Ogden was educated at Rossall School then Magdalene College, Cambridge. He founded and edited The Cambridge Magazine while an undergraduate, co-founded the Heretics Society, which attracted some significant speakers, was a literary editor of some note, and a passionate collector of books. His greatest claim-to-fame, however, was as the originator of Basic English, whose vocabulary of just 850 words were intended to help spread its use by non-native speakers.

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