Adam Jack Aitken (19 June 1921 – 11 February 1998) was a Scottish lexicographer and leading scholar of the Scots language. Aitken was born on 19 June...
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Scottish vowel length rule (redirect from Aitken's Law)
delimiters. The Scottish vowel length rule (also known as Aitken's law after A. J. Aitken, the Scottish linguist who formulated it) describes how vowel...
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Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook ("Max" to his close circle), was a Canadian-British...
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Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning...
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Ayrshire. The name Aitken may refer to: Abbi Aitken-Drummond (born 1991), Scottish cricketer A.J. Aitken, Scottish lexicographer Alexander Aitken, New Zealand...
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Janet Gladys Aitken (later Campbell, Montagu, and Kidd; 9 July 1908 – 18 November 1988) was a Canadian-British aristocrat and socialite. The daughter of...
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6 October 2020. Aitken, A. J. (1992). The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. p. 894. Stuart-Smith, J. (2008). "Scottish...
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Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken FRS FRSE FRSL FRSNZ (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced...
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Donald J. Aitken (born c. 1945) is a Canadian curler from Montreal. He was the second of the 1977 Brier Champion team, representing Quebec. He is a member...
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of the first OED Supplement (1933). Craigie was followed by Professor A. J. Aitken, who endorsed Craigie's principles, but he was nonetheless aware that...
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