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With the establishment of the newly politically independent [[Poccasin Federation]] in 1961, prime minister (and later president) Jonathan "Big Jon" Shimondeh wanted to set about with the modernisation and unity of the Federation, a big challenge brought on by the lasting effects of British colonialism. To facilitate this, the Big Jon government began promoting the use of [[Bemé]], then known widely as Poccasin Creole or Cassim Po Creole, a language which had already been used as a ''lingua franca'' in most of the archipelago for centuries. This initially culminated in the Creole Language Declaration on May 6th of that year, (coincidentally also Caine's birthday) a government declaration to expand the use of the Bemé language to facilitate intranational communication.

However, even by December of the same year the aforementioned problems of the lack of a standard orthography began to rear its head, as spelling was not consistent among government documentation~~; by February of 1962~~, ~~the problem had gotten so bad that~~ Big Jon ~~hastily ordered his government~~ to ~~return~~ to ~~using Standard British English conventions for~~ the ~~time being until, presumably, an official orthography could developed~~.

However, even by December of the same year the aforementioned problems of the lack of a standard orthography began to rear its head, as spelling was not consistent among government documentation. Thus, Big Jon eventually began looking for somebody to make a standardised orthography; he voiced these concerns to Charlie F. Caine, the then-US ambassador to the Federation.

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 With the establishment of the newly politically independent [[Poccasin Federation]] in 1961, prime minister (and later president) Jonathan "Big Jon" Shimondeh wanted to set about with the modernisation and unity of the Federation, a big challenge brought on by the lasting effects of British colonialism. To facilitate this, the Big Jon government began promoting the use of [[Bemé]], then known widely as Poccasin Creole or Cassim Po Creole, a language which had already been used as a ''lingua franca'' in most of the archipelago for centuries. This initially culminated in the Creole Language Declaration on May 6th of that year, (coincidentally also Caine's birthday) a government declaration to expand the use of the Bemé language to facilitate intranational communication.
-However, even by December of the same year the aforementioned problems of the lack of a standard orthography began to rear its head, as spelling was not consistent among government documentation; by February of 1962, the problem had gotten so bad that Big Jon hastily ordered his government to return to using Standard British English conventions for the time being until, presumably, an official orthography could developed.
+However, even by December of the same year the aforementioned problems of the lack of a standard orthography began to rear its head, as spelling was not consistent among government documentation. Thus, Big Jon eventually began looking for somebody to make a standardised orthography; he voiced these concerns to Charlie F. Caine, the then-US ambassador to the Federation.
 ==Development==