Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrate...
Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and translator who was associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004,...
(from Scottish and Irish) a social occasion with music and dancing, especially in Scotland and Ireland chicnoun (from French) the quality of being fashionable and elegant corsagenoun (from French) a small bunch of flowers that is worn on a woman's dress, for example at a wedding ...
[Daniel Wilson(1778–1858), Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and formerly vicar of Islington and head of Venn’s school in Highbury, had died in Calcutta on 2 January 1858.] 22. [John Pratt (1809–1871), Queens’, 1828; Caius, 1829; B.A. (3rdWrangler) 1833; Fellow, 1836; a gifted mathem...
English and Scottish Population Count 2010: 1,932,812 Population Count 2000: 1,857,160 Johnson is the second most popular surname in America. As you can probably tell, Johnson is a patronymic name – meaning “John’s son”. The name is a popular name in both the US and England, with...
Learner’s Dictionary was made for English learners, but I use it all the time because I like it. I can listen to the pronunciation of any word and I like the clear, simple meanings. And it has other features that I use all the time. It gives verb tenses, idioms, and other ...
As Nicola Liberati points out, these technologies of artificial intimacy are by no means neutral: “The digital characters and AI chatbots do not merely shape who we are by being part of us as suggested by phenomenology, but they also deeply affect the meanings and values we give to ...
For instance, suppose speaker #1 asserts, “The Scottish national character is brave and patriotic. No Scottish soldier has ever fled the field of battle in the face of the enemy.” Speaker #2 objects, “Ah, but what about Lucas MacDurgan? He fled from German troops in World War I.” ...
Where:Travels around the Scottish Highlands or all the way around Great Britain. When:Up to 20 hours of daylight in June makes it the perfect time to watch birds flying over mirror-like lakes. Duration:Trips can be as short as two days or as long as seven. Highlights:Possibly the most ...
gd-fcfg - Context-free feature-based grammar of Scottish Gaelic in the NLTK format. gdbank - Some tools and resources for natural language processing of Scottish Gaelic. https://www.tantallon.org.uk/cggblog/. hunspell-gd - Files for building Scottish Gaelic spell checkers.Secwepemc...