sayers

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An English surname common in Sussex

English surname common in Sussex

American football player. A running back with the Chicago Bears (1965-1971), he is one of few players to score touchdowns by rushing, receiving, and kick returning during one game, and the first to accomplish this feat three times

English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)

plural of sayer

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Dorothy L Sayers

born June 13, 1893, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. died Dec. 17, 1957, Witham, Essex English scholar and writer. In 1915 Sayers became one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University. Her first major work was Whose Body? (1923), in which she created the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, a witty, dashing young gentleman-scholar who would be featured in such later short-story collections and novels as Strong Poison (1930), The Nine Tailors (1934), and Busman's Honeymoon (1937). After the 1930s she concentrated on theological dramas and books, radio plays, and scholarly translations, notably of Dante's Divine Comedy

Dorothy L. Sayers

a British writer who wrote detective novels (=books about crime and murder) in which the main characters are Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (1893-1957)

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

born June 13, 1893, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. died Dec. 17, 1957, Witham, Essex English scholar and writer. In 1915 Sayers became one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University. Her first major work was Whose Body? (1923), in which she created the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, a witty, dashing young gentleman-scholar who would be featured in such later short-story collections and novels as Strong Poison (1930), The Nine Tailors (1934), and Busman's Honeymoon (1937). After the 1930s she concentrated on theological dramas and books, radio plays, and scholarly translations, notably of Dante's Divine Comedy

Расстановка переносов

Say·ers

Турецкое произношение

seyırz

Произношение

/ˈsāərz/ /ˈseɪɜrz/

Этимология

() * A patronymic form of Sayer. * Possibly of Norman or Old English origins. * An anglicisation of the Irish Saoghair.