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Pennycook

Pennycook proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Pennycook

  1. A surname.
    • Alastair Pennycook and Gerda de Klerk show in their papers that promotion of MT in education can be and has been used as a mechanism to maintain the status quo to the detriment of marginalized groups wishing to enhance their sociopolitical status.1974, International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Origin of Pennycook

From a historic town called Penicuik.

Questions about Pennycook

What does Pennycook mean?
Pennycook means a surname.
What part of speech is Pennycook?
Pennycook is a proper noun.

Words near Pennycook in the dictionary

  1. penny-weddings
  2. penny-wise
  3. penny-wise and pound-foolish
  4. pennyante
  5. Pennyburn
  6. Pennycook
  7. pennycress
  8. pennycresses
  9. pennying
  10. pennyings
  11. pennyland

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