Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Adam Jack Aitken (1921–1998) was a Scottish lexicographer and leading scholar of the Scots language.Jack Aitken was born on 19 June 1921 in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and was educated at Lasswade High School. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Adam Aitken, a miner, and his first wife Alexandrina Sutherland, who died when Jack was about nine. He suffered neglect as a step-child, but his minister, Rev.. }
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- Adam_Jack_Aitken comment "Adam Jack Aitken (1921–1998) was a Scottish lexicographer and leading scholar of the Scots language.Jack Aitken was born on 19 June 1921 in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and was educated at Lasswade High School. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Adam Aitken, a miner, and his first wife Alexandrina Sutherland, who died when Jack was about nine. He suffered neglect as a step-child, but his minister, Rev.".