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In later Old Irish, initial f s come to be written ḟ ṡ when lenited, with a dot (a so-called punctum delens) above the letter. Lenition occurs after: Certain case forms within a noun phrase, either of the noun or a preceding article or possessive. These include, at least: Nominative and vocative singular of all feminines
Punctum delens, typographic marks used to indicate deletion; Neume, the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation; Equant, punctum aequans, is a mathematical concept developed by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD to account for the observed motion of heavenly bodies
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
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Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, as did South African novelist Nadine Gordimer in 1995. Other South African writers in English are novelist J. M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize 2003) and playwright Athol Fugard. Kenya's most internationally renowned author is Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o who has written novels, plays and short stories in English.
Ina cleverly upgrades this childhood treat in a few easy ways. First, she doesn’t use a bag of any old milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips. Because there are so few ingredients in this recipe ...
1345: 14 April – Richard de Bury, English bishop and bibliophile (born 1287) 1349: September – Richard Rolle, English hermit, mystic and religious writer (probably born between 1390 and 1400) c. 1350 – Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), Japanese author and Buddhist monk (probably born 1283) 1364: 12 March – Ranulf Higden, English chronicler
Ben Jonson's Execration Upon Vulcan, one of the first recorded forms of the plain style in English literature. The plain style in literature, otherwise referred to as the 'low style', is the most common form of communication in the English language. It is a form of rhetoric which expresses a message very clearly to convey a direct meaning. The ...