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Patrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who studies names; he edited the Collins English Dictionary (1979), shed light on the meaning of surnames on both sides of the Atlantic, and unearthed the history of rude words.
Whos an intellectual? Who's an intellectual? The Sunday edition of this newspaper had published a letter in which an esteemed reader has raised a very interesting | 25 Jan 2021 9:09 AM GMT The Sunday edition of this newspaper had published a letter in which an esteemed reader has raised a very interesting and thought-provoking question. His question is: Who is an intellectual? He has also particularly mentioned the name of a learned person of Assam in this connection, which however is not as important as the basic question as to who an intellectual is. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary ha...