Pennycook

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a historic town called Penicuik.

Proper noun[edit]

Pennycook

  1. A surname.
    • 1974, International Journal of the Sociology of Language:
      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.