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On 11 July 1933, Ross married Elizabeth Stefanyja Olszewska (12 May 1906 – 20 April 1973), daughter of a Warsaw-based Polish father, Maciej Bronislaw Wacław Olszewski, and English mother, Ada Ethel Briggs. Olszewska was noted for her textual editing and as co-translator of
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after winning a Henry Skynner Scholarship in Astronomy in 1925, however he transferred to the School of English Language and Literature and graduated B.A. with first class honours in 1929. He also possessed a master's degree from the
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the following year. He was Professor of English Language at Birmingham from 1948 to 1951 and Professor of Linguistics 1951–74.
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In an article published in 1954, he coined the terms "U" and "non-U", on the differences that
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in 1929, becoming a full lecturer in 1936. In 1930, he was a founder member of the
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This article is about the British linguist. For the poet and editor, see
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From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the History of American Linguistics
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He was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in English Language at the
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E. G. Stanley, 'Ross, Alan Strode Campbell (1907–1980)',
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The Yorkshire Society for Celtic Studies, Session 1938-39
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The Yorkshire Society for Celtic Studies, Session 1933-34
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The Yorkshire Society for Celtic Studies, Session 1930-31
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Studies in the Accidence of the Lindisfarne Gospels
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