After the publication of the specification of the agreed Standard Written Form, members of
UdnFormScrefys, after scrutinising the published description, decided to form a new, public group, called
Spellyans ('Spelling'). This group undertook to study the SWF, to determine what shortcomings it might have, and to propose and implement solutions to those shortcomings. The group identified what they saw as a number of inconsistencies, ambiguities, and errors, and discussion on an online discussion list led to the publication of a number of texts in the resulting orthography,
Kernowek Standard, designated as
KS and not
KS2, culminating in the publication of the Bible in Cornish and a comprehensive grammar,
Desky Kernowek on 1 May 2012. Before the
Standard Written Form was reviewed in 2013, KS was described by its proponents as a proposal for a number of changes to be made to the SWF. The following changes were proposed, none of which were ultimately adopted by the
Cornish Language Partnership during the SWF's review: • The supporters of KS argue that the SWF inherited what the group calls an "inconsistency" from
Kernewek Kemmyn with regard to the distribution of the letters ⟨i⟩ and ⟨y⟩ outside monosyllables. For example, the SWF currently has
palys 'palace' and
gonis 'work', but it also has
kegin 'kitchen' and
kemmyn 'common', even though the final sound is the same. Supporters of the current distribution argue that it is etymological and maintains the correct sound when suffixes are added (singular
kegin becomes plural
keginow). • The group also argues that the SWF is ambiguous and inconsistent in its use of ⟨u⟩, which can be pronounced a number of ways. KS proposed the use of ⟨û⟩ for , e.g.
frût 'fruit', to prevent confusion with another ⟨u⟩ sound that can be pronounced either or (e.g.
tus 'people'), and ⟨ù⟩ for short , e.g.
pùb 'every', also to prevent confusion with the ⟨u⟩ above. • The addition of the digraphs ⟨ai⟩ , to distinguish from ⟨ay⟩ and ⟨ey⟩ , and ⟨au⟩ () to distinguish from ⟨aw⟩ . • The principal devisor of Kernowek Standard, Nicholas Williams, argues that current use of the graphs (-v⟩ and ⟨-dh⟩ in final unstressed position results in incorrect pronunciation. He maintains that a consonant switch between stressed and unstressed final position should be made, stressed ⟨-v⟩ and ⟨-dh⟩ switching to unstressed ⟨-f⟩ and ⟨-th⟩ respectively, similar to the SWF's current ⟨g⟩/⟨k⟩ and ⟨b⟩/⟨p⟩ switch. • Correction of an inconsistency between
menydh 'mountain' (Welsh
mynydd) and
nowyth 'new' (Welsh
newydd). In KS, both are spelt with -th because they are in final unstressed syllables. During the SWF review, the spelling of
nowydh was accepted for the SWF. The supporters of KS argue that this was the wrong one of the two choices. ==Importance to Cornish literature==