Kern
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Kern can refer to several things:
- Kerning, the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font
- Harvest Home, a festival known in Scotland as Kern
- Kern County, California, USA
- A Kern is also a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies.
- Kern is a colloquial Australian juxtaposition meaning beautiful freak/oddity.
[edit] Surnames
- Anna Kern (1800—1873), Pushkin's mistress
- Anna Kern (1921)
- Brad Kern
- Ericca Kern (1965— ), American bodybuilder
- David J. Kern
- Jamie Kern
- Jim Kern
- Joey Kern
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (or H. Kern, 1833–1917), Dutch linguist and former head of Brahmana College and of Queen's College, Benares
- John W. Kern (1849–1917), American politician
- John Kern (Canadian politician)
- Jerome Kern (1885–1945), American composer
- Ken Kern
- Kevin Kern
- Otto Kern (1863–1942), German linguist
- Richard Kern (1954— ), American photographer and filmmaker
- Sean Kern
[edit] Kern (Australian colloquialism)
Kern is a word commonly used within the Eastern side of Australia, with the predominant users being teenagers and youths. The definition of "kern" is literally beautiful freak, used to define a person who is either physically attractive but is a "bad" person or someone who is physically unattractive but is a "good" person. Thus the coupling of beautiful and freak, commonly used as an explanation as to why an individual dislikes another, such as "She's a kern". The etymology of kern is unknown. Also, the Goth(ic) subculture of Australia are deeply offended if labelled a kern; this led to the wide use of kern as a way of labelling goths. However, recently the word kern has lost popularity as an insult and has given way to "Large Sue". For example, "That girl dyed her hair black. She's the Largest Sue I ever saw".
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