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amanuensis noun clerk, recorder, recording secreeary, scribe, scrivener, secretary, writer AMANUENSIS. One who write another dictates. About the beginning of the sixth century,, the tabellions (q.v.) were known by this name. 1 Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. Age, n. 16. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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With the help of nine amanuenses (amanuensis: a person who writes
what another dictates)--practically all of them Scots--Johnson opened
shop at 17 Gough Square, off Fleet Street in London, and set about the
laborious chore of collecting and arranging 42,773 entries for the first
edition. Although the ex-slaves speak for
themselves in this collection (through FWP amanuenses, of course), this
"Folk History of Slavery" doesn't yield a single African
word or name.
In fact, Don Talayesva, a Hopi Indian who told his life story to Leo
Simmons, a Yale sociologist, and Gregorio, a Navajo whose story was
written down by Alexander and Dorothy Leighton, two medically trained
participants in the Values Study Project launched by Clyde Kluckhohn in
the 1940s, were treated very differently by their amanuenses. |
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