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Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.
The British band Queen released an album called At the Beeb in the UK and it had to be called "At the BBC" for US release. Belisha beacon orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs , mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults.Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page.
Essayists from British India (7 P) E. English essayists (3 C, 232 P) W. Welsh essayists (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "British essayists"
Emery Molyneux (1500–1598), astronomer; William Gilbert (1544–1603), physician and philosopher; John Gerard (1545–1612), botanist; Robert Hues (1553–1632), geographer and mathematician
The principal substrate of British toponyms is thus Celtic in origin, and more specifically Brittonic ('British'), ancestral to modern Welsh and more distantly related to the Goidelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. The oldest place-names in England appear to be the names of rivers, many of which are interpreted as being Brittonic in origin.
A British computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist who formalised the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which is a model of a general purpose computer. Subject: Frank Whittle: Presenter: James Dyson: A British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer air officer.