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• 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.

In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font. ... In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... Harvest Home is: A song recorded and released by Big Country in 1982. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Kern County is a county located in the southern Central Valley of California. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...

Surnames

• Anna Kern (1800—1873), Pushkin's mistress.
• 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
• Jerome Kern (1885–1945), American composer
• Otto Kern (1863–1942), German linguist
• Richard Kern (1954— ), American photographer and filmmaker
• Ericca Kern (1965— ), American bodybuilder

Anna P. Markova-Vinogradskaya (Kern). ... Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (April 6, 1833–July 7, 1917) was a Dutch linguist. ... John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 - August 17, 1917) was a U.S. Democratic politician from Indiana. ... Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American popular composer. ... Otto Kern (February 14, 1863 – January 31, 1942) was a German linguist and former professor of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. ... Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York underground filmmaker and photographer. ...

Kern (Australian Colloquialism)

Kern is a word commonly used within the Eastern side of Australian. With the prodominant 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 lead to the wideuse 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 died her hair black, "she's the Largest Sue I ever saw".

See also

• Kerner