Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.

Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.

Among his other works is The Grey Room, the plot of which is centered on a haunted room in an English manor house.

The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men English translation

In the seventeenth century laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned " father of English medicine " or " English Hippocrates ," to whom is attributed the quote, " Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.

Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.

Among leading dictionaries and encyclopedias, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers " website ", and the Oxford English Dictionary changed to " website " in 2004.

Among these characters were Stavros, a Greek restaurant owner with fractured English ; and Loadsamoney, an obnoxious, Cockney plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned.

Among native English speakers, many different accents exist.

Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

Among the main achievements of the reign of Edward I were the reforms of the institution of the English Parliament and its transformation into a source for generating revenues.

126 Among the rarities .. was some fine ice cream, which, with the strawberries and milk, eat most deliciously .< ref name = oed >" ice cream, n ." The Oxford English Dictionary.

Among other events of the 17th century, the Bandanese attempted independent trade with the English, and the East-India Company's response was to decimate the native population of the Banda Islands, sending the survivors fleeing to other islands, and then installing slave labour.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

Among the letters given to the Grand Pensionary, by mistake was included one containing the secret English instructions to their contacts in the Orange party, outlining plans for an overthrow of the States regime.

Among Chinese speakers, however, it is typically understood that one is referring to the leafy vegetable unless otherwise specified.

Among early centers of Christianity a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible was used by Greek speakers ( Aramaic Targums were used by Aramaic speakers such as the Syriac Orthodox Church ).

Among careful speakers, however, the original vowel may be preserved, and the vowels are always preserved in the orthography.

Among the Mayan languages, which are mostly non-tonal, Yucatec ( with the largest number of speakers ), Uspantek, and one dialect of Tzotzil have developed simple tone systems.

Among Spanish speakers, moro (" Moor ") came to have a broader meaning, applied to both Moros of Mindanao in the Philippines, and the moriscos of Granada.

Among Esperanto speakers there was a general impression that the Delegation would of course choose Esperanto, as it was the only auxlang with a sizable speaker community at the time ; it was felt as a betrayal by many Esperanto speakers when in 1907 the Delegation came up with its own reformed version of Esperanto, Ido.

Among past guest speakers are Andrew Lloyd Webber, J. K. Rowling, Vivienne Westwood, Ian McKellen, Kevin Warwick, Boris Johnson, Rowan Atkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Terry Wogan, King Constantine II of Greece, Katie Price, Zoe Wanamaker, Boris Berezovsky and Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

Among the keynote speakers was leading liberal academic, Dr Abdulla Al Madani, who emphasised Gandhi ’ s moral vision: " Had he resorted to kidnapping, suicide-bombings, beheadings, or other barbarian means, his memory would not have remained rooted in the world's conscience.

Among the speakers was American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky.

Among the speakers was Canadian social activist and author Naomi Klein and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who firmly said in his talk, “ We are going to go to the UN to declare that water is a basic public need that must not be managed by private interests, but should be for all people, including people of rural areas .” The Forum was at first plagued with logistical problems, as a number of events had to be canceled at the last minute because of a lack of space, and a student strike against the policies of President Abdoulaye Wade in Diop University interrupted some scheduled plenaries.

Among fluent Tujia speakers, Chinese borrowings, and even sentence structures, are common.

Among electrostatic full-range speakers which are no longer made are the KLH 9, one of the earliest US full-range designs, although the bass dropped off rapidly below 70 Hz.

Among Mahmud II's most notable acts during his reign was the abolition of the Janissary corps in 1826, permitting the establishment of a European-style conscript army, recruited largely from Turkish speakers of Rumelia and Asia Minor.

Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of foreign branding intended to give a band's logo a Teutonic quality — denoting stereotypes of boldness and strength commonly attributed to ancient northern European peoples, such as the Vikings and Goths.

Among many other speakers: Tyler Volk, Co-director of the Program in Earth and Environmental Science at New York University ; Dr. Donald Aitken, Principal of Donald Aitken Associates ; Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment ; Robert Correll, Senior Fellow, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society and noted environmental ethicist, J. Baird Callicott.

Among the speakers were Cobden and Bright, and the dinner is memorable as the first occasion on which the two future leaders appeared together on a Free Trade platform.

Among younger speakers, the Algonquin language has experienced strong word borrowings from the Cree language.

Among the distinctive features of the vowel-sounds employed by some Indian English speakers are:

Among English speakers, Agaricus bisporus is known by many names.

Among Maya speakers Spanish is commonly spoken as a second or first language.