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  2. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Billy Corgan Wrote and performed the song "Half-Life of an Autodidact" on his album Ogilala, apparently referencing himself in the song. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a mostly self-taught painter. [17] Clark Ashton Smith, self-taught poet and fantasy author. George Orwell, English novelist, essayist and journalist.

  3. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century. Many successful and influential architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc, Tadao Ando were self-taught. There are very few countries allowing autodidacticism in architecture today.

  4. Urdu Lughat - Wikipedia

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    Urdu Lughat is composed in the style of the Oxford English Dictionary.It is the most comprehensive, detailed and thick dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [citation needed] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi.

  5. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies. Many entered English during the British Raj in colonial India. These borrowings, dating back to the colonial period, are often labeled as "Anglo ...

  6. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.

  7. Talk:List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Definition of autodidact [ edit ] To uphold the " KISS Principle " let's just define an autodidact as someone who does not have a Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral degree, but has an equivalent Autodidactic Education .

  8. Urdish - Wikipedia

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    Urdish, Urglish or Urdunglish, a portmanteau of the words Urdu and English, is the macaronic hybrid use of South Asian English and Standard Urdu. [1] In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.

  9. Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...