* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1924 – John Harvey-Jones, English businessman ( d. 2008 )

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

* 1989 – Rob Knox, English actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Mark Speight, English television presenter ( b. 1965 )

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences.

* 1923 – Norman Smith ( record producer ), English singer and record producer ( d. 2008 )

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.

* 2008 – Ernie Cooksey, English footballer ( b. 1980 )

* 2008 – Clive Hornby, English actor ( b. 1944 )

* 2008 – Charles Wheeler, English journalist ( b. 1923 )

* 1976 – Natasha Collins, English actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Reg Varney, English actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Dirty Mac, and The Riot Squad ) ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer ( d. 2008 )

L ' Harmattan, Paris, 2003 translated in English and printed under the title " Jains today in the world " by Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, India, 2008

* 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboard player and songwriter ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival.

This thought had originated due to the idea that sign language hinders the development of an oral language in deaf children ( Mayberry, 2008 ).

The success of foreign language foreign films continued with the Swedish films Marianne ( 2011 ) and Let the Right One In ( 2008 ), which was later the subject of a Hollywood remake, Let Me In ( 2010 ).

Lepore ( 2008 ) demonstrates Webster's paradoxical ideas about language and politics and shows why Webster's endeavors were at first so poorly received.

Oberon-07 compilers have been developed for use with 32-bit Windows Oberon-07M ( Oberon-07 language revision 2008 ), 32-bit ARM, Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, and a Wirth-designed RISC processor implemented using a Xilinx FPGA Spartan-3 board.

In 2008, the system was brought up to a new level and the resulting language termed " Pascaline " ( after Pascal's calculator ).

By language, according to 2008 data, 21 % of the population always speak in Galician, 15 % always speak in Spanish and the rest use both interchangeably.

A French language adaptation, translated by Philippe Gobeille, opened in Montreal, Quebec in March 2008.

In recent years, video content has also been used by the World Service ; 16 language services now show video reports in that language on the service's website and two services now have dedicated television channels-BBC Arabic launched in 2008 and BBC Persian launched in 2009.

On 28 March 2008, Māori Television launched its second channel, Te Reo, broadcast entirely in the Māori language, with no advertising or subtitles.

SPARQL is an SQL-like language, and a recommendation of the W3C as of January 15, 2008.

The language is now near extinction ; during the filming of Ironbound Films ' 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded one of the last remaining 3 speakers.

By the time Mission San Jose was closed as an agricultural commune in the mid-1830s, Plains Miwok was the predominate native language among its neophyte Indian people ( Milliken 2008 ).

The Parrot Foundation was created in 2008 to hold the copyright and trademarks of the Parrot project, to help drive development of language implementations and the core codebase, to provide a base for growing the Parrot community, and to reach out to other language communities.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Buches der Institutiones Grammaticae, Frankfurt am Main: Valentia, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936132-18-2 ( German translation of book XIV ; first translation into a modern language.

* In Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, Le Clézio referred to Rabelais as ".... the greatest writer in the French language ".

A few speakers of the Ninilchik Russian dialect are still alive in 2008, including one married couple who continues to speak the language to each other.

Riley was charged with abusive language for allegedly using profanity on stage while performing with the band Galactic in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, in the city's annual Bayou Boogaloo Festival at Town Point Park in June 2008.

In May 2008, Walkersville commissioners passed Resolution 2008-4 becoming the second town in Maryland to adopt English as the town's official language.

The Missouri General Assembly, in the 2008 legislative session, enacted legislation, to take effect in August 2009, which included language similar to Valley Park's unlawful employment ordinance, to be enforced by the Missouri Attorney General.

There is also a special needs primary school called Springwell School designated for pupils with complex learning difficulties including speech and language disorders, autism and challenging behaviour, which opened its doors to students on September 2007, though was not officially opened until March 2008.