Walter Henry Medhurst
The word "Hokkien" first originated from Walter Henry Medhurst when he published "the Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms" in 1832. This is considered to be the earliest English-based Hokkien Dictionary and the first major reference work in POJ, although the romanization within was quite different from the modern system. In this dictionary, the word "Hok-këèn" was used. In 1869, POJ was further revised by John Macgowan in his published book "A Manual Of The Amoy Colloquial". In this book, "këèn" was changed to "kien" and from then on, the word "Hokkien" began to be used more often. Current literature have questioned the classification of Hokkien as a dialect of the Chinese language given that it is not mutually intelligible even with its Min regional languages.