John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where...
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John Wells (sportscaster) (born 1946), Canadian sportscaster Jack Wells (sportscaster) (John Hampson Wells, 1911–1999), radio and TV broadcaster John...
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Dr. John C. Wells, head of the Physics Department. The facility was then moved to Miller Hall and renovated in 1975, later named in honor of Wells on the...
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1417-1433), MP for the City of London John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles (c. 1450–1498), English Lancastrian nobleman John Welles (MP for Windsor) (by 1485 – 1515/18)...
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opposition to the United Kingdom's Received Pronunciation. Noted phonetician John C. Wells, for instance, claimed in 1982 that typical Canadian English accents...
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Wells Fargo Bank in 1962. In 1968, Wells Fargo was converted to a federal banking charter and became Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. In that same year, Wells Fargo...
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Lexical set (redirect from Wells standard lexical set)
work of phonetician John C. Wells, a lexical set is a class of words in a language that share a certain vowel phoneme. As Wells himself says, lexical...
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estuary, including London, since the late 20th century. Phonetician John C. Wells proposed a definition of Estuary English as "Standard English spoken...
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Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while Charles Fort called him a "wild talent".: 7 Wells rendered his works convincing...
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John (de) Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, KG (c. 1450 – 9 February 1498) was an English Lancastrian nobleman who was made a Knight of the Garter. John was...
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