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The Sabhal Mòr Lectures are a series of annual televised lectures held at the college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, Scotland. The lectures are held in English, but focus on topics related to the Scottish Gaelic language, often with emphasis on related economic or cultural issues. The invited lecturers are sometimes very prominent personalities ...
A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. [ 2] It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language . There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1746 a group of London booksellers ...
v. t. e. In linguistics, morphology ( mor-FOL-ə-jee[ 1]) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. [ 2][ 3] Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some ...
e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
The Story of English is a nine-part television series, produced in 1986, detailing the development of the English language. [ 1] The Story of English is also a companion book, also produced in 1986. The book and the television series were written by Robert MacNeil, Robert McCrum, and William Cran. [ 2] The book has been revised twice, once in ...
e. English as a lingua franca ( ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". [3] [4] ELF is "defined functionally by ...
MNIF Public Lecture Series at Montana Neuroscience Institute Foundation. Neuroscience Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin–Madison. NRC Lecture Series at Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. NUIN Lecture Series at the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.
Feed. English as a Second Language (ESL) Podcast is a web-based English language-learning podcast. It is the first and longest-running English language learning podcast on the Internet. It was launched in July 2005 by two former university professors, Dr. Jeff McQuillan and Dr. Lucy Tse of the Center for Educational Development in Los Angeles ...