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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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    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 Palace, is a professional football club based in Selhurst in the Borough of Croydon, South London...
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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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    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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  • 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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    locution 'LOL' to communicate my appreciation of your attempt at humor." David Crystal notes that use of LOL is not necessarily genuine, just as the use of...
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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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  • (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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  • 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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