Word info

Burney

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

A census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Another text influenced by Enlightenment values was Charles Burney 's A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1776), which was a historical survey and an attempt to rationalize elements in music systematically over time. Source: Internet

At the age of eight, Frances had not yet learned the alphabet, and some scholars suggest that Burney suffered from a form of dyslexia. Source: Internet

Althoff, William F., USS Los Angeles, Washington DC, Brassey's, 2004, p. 48, ISBN 1-57488-620-7 In 1922 Sir Dennistoun Burney suggested a plan for a subsidised air service throughout the British Empire using airships (the Burney Scheme). Source: Internet

Burney concludes that “policymakers often think about greenhouse gas emissions as a separate problem from air pollution, but the same processes that cause climate change also produce these aerosols, ozone, and other compounds that cause important damages. Source: Internet

Burney 1987 There is some suspicion that cannabis may have reached Africa 3000 years ago. Source: Internet

Commire, Klezmer 228. Esther Sleepe Burney also bore two other boys, both named Charles, who died in infancy in 1752 and 1754. Source: Internet

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