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Mead, George Herbert

(Encyclopedia)Mead, George Herbert mēd [key], 1863–1931, American philosopher and psychologist, b. South Hadley, Mass., grad. Oberlin, 1883, and Harvard, 1888, and studied in Leipzig and Berlin. He taught at the...

langue d'oc and langue d'oïl

(Encyclopedia)langue d'oc dôēlˈ [key], names of the two principal groups of medieval French dialects. Langue d'oc (literally, “language of yes”) was spoken south of a line running, roughly, from Bordeaux to ...

Ugarit

(Encyclopedia)Ugarit o͞ogərētˈ [key], ancient city, capital of the Ugarit kingdom, W Syria, on the Mediterranean coast N of modern Latakia. Although the name of this city was known from Egyptian and Hittite sou...

COBOL

(Encyclopedia)COBOL: see programming language. ...

FORTRAN

(Encyclopedia)FORTRAN: see programming language. ...

Pascal

(Encyclopedia)Pascal: see programming language. ...

LISP

(Encyclopedia)LISP: see programming language.

landsmaal

(Encyclopedia)landsmaal: see Norwegian language. ...

kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

Plattdeutsch

(Encyclopedia)Plattdeutsch: see German language. ...

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