Meanings
proper noun
- 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
From a historic town called Penicuik.
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