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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈruːlˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOLTOL-keen; [a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke ...
Young with her BPI silver disc for "Speak Like a Child" which she auctioned to raise money for Little Havens Children's Hospice in 2007. Tracie Young (often just billed as Tracie; born 25 March 1965) [1] is a former English pop singer in the 1980s. She achieved success after becoming a protégée of Paul Weller .
GNIS feature ID. 1500206 [2] Tangier is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States, on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The population was 436 at the 2020 census. [4] Since 1850, the island's landmass has been reduced by 67%. Under the mid-range sea level rise scenario, much of the remaining landmass is expected to be lost in the ...
Commonwealth English [2] ( CE or CwE) is very diverse, and many regions (notably Australia, Brunei, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Caribbean) have developed their own local varieties of the language. In Cyprus, it does not have official status but is widely used as ...
The Romanichal ( UK: / ˈrɒmənɪtʃæl / US: /- ni -/; more commonly known as English Gypsies) are a Romani subgroup within the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world. Most Romanichal speak Angloromani, a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English syntax. Romanichal resident in England, Scotland, and Wales ...
The Privy Council (formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council) is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors, are mainly senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords . The Privy Council formally advises the ...
Signs and symptoms. To the untrained ear, those with the syndrome sound as though they speak their native languages with a foreign accent; for example, an American native speaker of American English might sound as though they spoke with a south-eastern British English accent or a native English speaker from Great Britain might speak with a New York accent.
Commonwealth Caribbean. The Commonwealth Caribbean is the region of the Caribbean with English-speaking countries and territories, which once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire and are now part of the Commonwealth of Nations. The term includes many independent island nations, British Overseas Territories and some mainland ...