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Chinua Achebe (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ n w ɑː ə ˈ tʃ ɛ b eɪ / ⓘ; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature.
By the beginning of the 20th century the capital supported about 20 People's Houses: these provided entertainment, educational clubs for middle-class intelligentsia, petty officials, students, soldiers and workers, etc. [1] Typically, a People's House included a library, reading room, theatre, tea rooms, a bookshop, a lecture hall with stage ...
The following is a List of authors by name whose last names ... (US house pseudonym since ... nf/p), full name Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl; Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013 ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
Edwin G. "Ted" Pulleyblank was born on August 7, 1922, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.His father, William George Edwin Pulleyblank, was a teacher of mathematics who later became a school vice-principal, and his mother, Ruth Pulleyblank, had also been a teacher.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
A People's House is a European type of leisure, cultural and community centre. People's House may also refer to: People's house (United Kingdom), a building specification proposed by Harold Macmillan; Halkevleri (meaning "People's House"), a 20th-century Turkish state sponsored community project; Vermont State House