Hart responded, saying he was 'thrilled' to discover that the priest shared his concern about the language and was 'so well qualified to arrest its disappearance.' He suggested that Bennett should write a 'little book on the language'. Д«ennett's reply to Hart included an Arawak translation of The Lord's Prayer, and an account of the use of genders and 'abstract conceptions' in the Arawak language. The Archbishop told Hart that he had no knowledge of any such studies, but referred him immediately to Bennett. Concerned that 'the Arawak language would be allowed to die out completely before a proper study of it had been made', Hart had contacted the Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana to find out whether the church had studied the language. On 20 June 1965, Richard Hart, a Jamaican historian undertaking research into Arawakan history and culture in the Caribbean, wrote to Bennett to ask for assistance.

I remember even then, however, feeling that the ability to speak one's own language was something good and shouldn't be lightly discarded.' 'People were made to feel that speaking their own language was something sinful almost, certainly something bad which should be discouraged. In 'An Outline of my life and work' in Kabethechino, Bennett recalls that he 'was always interested in language' although under British colonial rule, schools in British Guiana insisted on students' using English at school and at home, and discouraged the use of indigenous languages. We have to take their place and try to get to understand as much Arawak as we can. But now these old people have died and there is nobody to ask. You know, if we were checking on the specific sense of an Arawak word we would go and ask one of the old people we knew. Arawak-English Dictionary and later years He was made a canon of the Stall of David in 1976. He was made a Deacon on 24 June 1949, and was ordained into the priesthood on 18 September of the same year at St George's Cathedral in Georgetown. Bennett passed his General Ordination Examination (GOE) in 1949, and returned to British Guiana shortly afterwards. In October 1946, Bennett enrolled at Codrington College in Barbados to study for ordination. Hirst, an English native, was an Anglican priest who served in Kabakaburi from 1939 to 1955.

Priesthood Д«ennett began his training for the priesthood in Kabakaburi, where he studied with Reverend Martin B. Their son, Maurice, was born in November 1944, and their daughter, Jennifer, was born in 1956. On 2 December 1938, Bennett married Clara James as St Mattias' Church in Kabakaburi. On leaving school, Bennett went to work as a shop assistant in Great Troolie Island and later at a shop on the Pomeroon River. He attended school at Kabakaburi until the age of 12. John Peter Bennett was born to Elsie Bennett and Jacob Bennett at Grant Faithful, near Kabakaburi and the Pomeroon River, in British Guiana on 30 November 1914.

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