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    David Crystal, OBE, FBA, FLSW, FCIL (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language. Crystal studied English...
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    Shakespeare and adapting original practices. Crystal was born in Ascot, Berkshire, the son of linguist David Crystal, and grew up in Wokingham and Holyhead...
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    the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion. David Crystal calculated in 2003 that non-native speakers outnumbered native speakers...
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  • Crystal Palace Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Palace, is a professional football club based in Selhurst, South London, England, which competes...
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  • 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. The Dark Crystal was produced by Gary Kurtz, while the screenplay was written by David Odell, with whom Henson previously worked...
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  • psychology, phonetics, or poetics. More broadly, the British linguist David Crystal has regarded phonaesthetics as the study of "phonaesthesia" (i.e., sound...
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  • revenge against the Dead Boy Detectives David Iacono as David the Demon, a demon who previously possessed Crystal and now stalks her Lukas Gage as the Cat...
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  • B as he spoke out to oppose the use of the term. In 2013, linguist David Crystal said on BBC Learning English: People talk about "chav behaviour" or...
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    William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known as a standup comedian and for his film and stage...
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    from computer-mediated communication to face-to-face communication. David Crystal – likening the introduction of LOL, ROFL, and others into spoken language...
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  • Romeo and Juliet in original pronunciation. Spearheaded by linguist David Crystal and play director, Tim Carroll, this was the beginning of contemporary...
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    A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying...
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  • a world language, with some authors such as British linguists David Crystal and David Graddol going so far as to consider it the only one. Authors who...
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  • The English Language. Ed. David Crystal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 132. ISBN 0521401798 Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics...
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    ISBN 978-1-4441-8309-2. Crystal, David (2000). Language Death. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139106856. ISBN 978-0-521-65321-3. Crystal, David (2003a). English as a...
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    Crystal Lynn Bernard (born September 30, 1961) is a retired American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her roles as Helen Chappel-Hackett...
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    In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the six crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two...
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  • the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story...
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    (2008) [1985]. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English language. Index by David Crystal. Longman. pp. 355–361. ISBN 978-0-582-51734-9. Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum...
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  • in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). As noted by David Crystal, science is an especially productive field for new coinages. It is also...
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  • Ordinal number Valency Roman numerals Latin numerals Greek numerals Notes David Crystal (2011). Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (6th ed.). John Wiley...
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  • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is an American fantasy television series produced, made and owned by The Jim Henson Company. It is a prequel to the...
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    Crystal Pepsi is a cola soft drink made by PepsiCo. It was initially released in the United States and Canada from 1992 to 1994. It was briefly sold in...
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    Late Show with David Letterman, on 12 December 2012, comedian Billy Crystal mentioned Cabot in humorous dialogue with the host David Letterman. Letterman...
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  • Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. The studio is best known for its games in the Tomb Raider,...
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  • (2008), p. xxix. Roach (2011). David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995), pp. 41-42 David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia...
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    The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition...
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  • 1977), British actor, writer and producer Billy Crystal (born 1948), American comedian and actor David Crystal (born 1941), British linguist and author Lillian...
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  • Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0380715435. David Crystal (2013). The Story of English in 100 Words. Picador. ISBN 978-1250024206. David Crystal (2015). Wordsmiths and Warriors:...
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  • ISBN 9780230240568. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language. Ed. David Crystal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 133. ISBN 0521401798...
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