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Revision as of 12:45, 7 December 2020
The name Keynes has two uses currently.
- It is found in a number of place-names, such as Milton Keynes. In these, it is pronounced with a long '-i-' to rhyme with 'means' and 'scenes': IPA: /kiːnz/. Horsted Keynes ia an exception: it uses the prerdominant family pronunciation below.
- (Keynes as an element in a place-name indicates previous ownership in the years after the Norman Conquest of the place by a member of one of the families variously written de Kaines, de Kaynes, de Cahaignes, Cahagnes [a place in Normandy], de Keynes etc.)
- Modern representatives of these families mostly write themselves Keynes, and pronounce it as a homophone of 'canes',rhyming it with 'planes' and 'Danes':IPA: /keɪnz/. This includes
- the great economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). The adjective to refer to him and his work, keynesian, and the doctrine Keyensianism, are pronounced like their eponym: 'CANES-i-an', IPA: /ˈkeɪnz ɪ ən [ɪzəm]/
- his father John Neville Keynes (1852–1949) also an economist; a teacher and administrator at Cambridge University
- Simon Keynes (1952- ), Professor of Anglo-Saxon (retired 2019) in Cambridge University
