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Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter from King James VI in 1582 and officially opened in 1583, it is one of Scotland's four ancient universities and the sixth-oldest university in continuous operation in the English-speaking world. [2] The university played a crucial role in Edinburgh becoming a leading ...
George Yule was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1947, and became an American citizen in 2000. He now lives in Hawai‘i.He studied at Edinburgh University, completing an M.A. in English Language and Literature (1969), M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics (1978), and a PhD in Linguistics (1981).
Language Log was started on July 28, 2003, by Liberman and Pullum, a linguist then at the University of California, Santa Cruz (now at the University of Edinburgh).One early post about a woman who wrote egg corns instead of acorns led to the coinage of the word eggcorn to refer to a type of sporadic or idiosyncratic re-analysis.
English physician, discovered Bright's disease, known as the "father of nephrology" David Bruce: MB 1881, CM 1881 Scottish pathologist, identified the cause of sleeping sickness and discovered Malta fever and brucellosis: Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton: BSc 1867, MD 1768, DSc 1870 Discovered organic nitrates had the ability to alleviate angina pectoris
Samhuinn Wikipedia editathon at University of Edinburgh editathon - 31st October 2016: 3: Robert Louis Stevenson: 139,936 views: Robert Louis Stevenson mit 7 Jahren.jpg: 4: Escherichia coli: 138,776 views: E.coli image.jpg. 5: Tableau périodique des éléments: 131,195 views: Periodic Table cupcakes at Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – King's ...
Pit Corder was born at 4 Bootham Terrace, York, into a Quaker family. [1] [3] His father, Philip Corder (b. 1885), was a schoolteacher of English origin, and his mother, Johanna Adriana van der Mersch (b. 1887), was Dutch. [3]
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The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures is a school within the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 2002 as a result of administrative restructuring, when several departments of what was then the Faculty of Arts were brought together.