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14-1185: In Myagdi district, there are many Pun villages, such as Doba (3rd largest Pun village), Narchyang , Paudwar, Pakhapani, Dana, Bega, Ghorepani , Chimkhola, Dagnam, Shikha, Baduk, Darmija, Kot Gau, Owlo, Rima / Bima, Histan gau, Dachale gau, Khibang, Kuye Pani gau, Muna gau, Dang, Ramche, Jhi/Jhin Patal khet, Begkhola , Mudi, Bhurung,BireThati, Tibilang, Nangi. Pun have many sub clans but in this area Pun sub clans are mostly (Chochangi, Purja, Garbuja, Paija, Ramjali, Tilija, Dut, Phagami, Sherpunja, Khoroja, Pahare. Many Gorkha soldiers are recruited from here and have been serving in British Gorkha , in Gurkha Contingent Singapore Police , in Gurkha Reserve Unit Brunie and in Gorkha Rifles (India) , many Pun from here have also served in Hong Kong as

28-587: A British Gorkha soldier, Victoria Cross Tul Bahadur Pun ( VC ) and (CGC) Dipprasad Pun (British Gorkha Army) who received Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for an act of bravery, they are also from Myagdi. The most popular tourist spots in Myagdi are: world famous Poon Hill / Pun Hill, Ghorepani , Pun Hill / Poon Hill Trek, Karbakeli Footpath, Beni Bazaar, Maharani Than, Dhaulagiri Himal, Todke, Jagannath Temple, Galeshwor Dham, Malika Dhuri, Singa Tatopani Kunda, Kaligandaki River, Rupse Jharna. Myagdi district

42-1214: Is a mountains hills region and to reach this beautiful places, the easiest and nearest route is from Pokhara city to Beni as its district headquaters. This district can experience 7 types of climates i Caste/ethnicity in Myagdi district (2011) At the time of the 2011 Nepal census , Myagdi District had a population of 113,641. As their first language, 94.4% spoke Nepali , 2.2% Magar , 1.0% Magar Kham , 0.9% Chhantyal , 0.6% Newari , 0.1% Bhojpuri , 0.1% Gurung , 0.1% Hindi , 0.1% Maithili , 0.1% Sanskrit , 0.1% Sign language , 0.1% Thakali and 0.2% other languages. Ethnicity/caste: 39.6% were Magar , 17.0% Chhetri , 15.4% Kami , 8.0% Hill Brahmin , 5.8% Damai /Dholi, 3.5% Chhantyal , 3.4% Sarki , 2.0% Thakuri , 1.3% Newar , 1.0% Gurung , 0.9% Thakali , 0.5% Kisan , 0.2% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.2% Tamang , 0.1% Badi , 0.1% other Dalit , 0.1% Musalman , 0.1% Rai and 0.3% others. Religion: 87.2% were Hindu , 10.3% Buddhist , 1.3% Christian , 0.8% Prakriti , 0.2% Muslim and 0.2% others. Literacy: 71.5% could read and write, 2.3% could only read and 26.1% could neither read nor write. The district consists of 6 Municipalities , out of which one

56-459: Is a surname. It may be: According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks , there were 783 people with this surname on the island of Great Britain and six on the island of Ireland as of 2011. The 2010 United States Census found 1,197 people with the surname Pun, making it the 21,736th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 861 people (26,614th-most-common) in the 2000 Census . In both censuses, more than four-fifths of

70-406: Is an urban municipality and five are rural municipalities . These are as follows: Prior to the restructuring of the district, Myagdi District consisted of the following municipalities and Village development committees : "Districts of Nepal" . Statoids . 28°20′30″N 83°34′00″E  /  28.3417°N 83.5666°E  / 28.3417; 83.5666 Pun (surname) Pun

84-624: Is editor in chief of the Dictionary of American Family Names (3 volumes, OUP 2003), and is co-author with Flavia Hodges and Kate Hardcastle of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names (1990, 2006). He was section editor for lexicography in the second edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2; 2005), edited by Keith Brown, for which he commissioned survey articles on lexicography in all

98-687: The Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary (1971). In 1970, he was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary (1979). From 1980 to 1983, he was director of the Names Research Unit of the University of Essex , England, where he began a PhD under the supervision of Yorick Wilks . In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of COBUILD , and in 1987 he took on the additional role of chief editor of English dictionaries for Collins (now HarperCollins ). In

112-906: The Collocations Project and Electronic Dictionary of the German Language (DWDS) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) headed by Christiane Fellbaum . He has also served as a consultant on lexicographical methodology to the Institute of the Czech Language in Prague, to Patakis Publishers in Athens, and others. Patrick Hanks was the author of many papers on lexical analysis , lexicography , onomastics , and similes and metaphor . He

126-532: The bearers of the surname identified as Asian . Notable people with this surname include: Patrick Hanks Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer , corpus linguist , and onomastician . He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names . Hanks was educated at Ardingly College , University College, Oxford (BA, MA), and Masaryk University (PhD). After graduation from Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of

140-534: The development of one of the earliest search engines ( AltaVista ). On the basis of the COBUILD and HECTOR research in corpus analysis, Hanks began to develop his theory of Norms and Exploitations. From 2001 to 2005, he was adjunct professor of computational lexicography at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, where he worked closely with James Pustejovsky . In 2003, he was appointed consultant and visiting scientist to

154-582: The empirical procedure of Corpus Pattern Analysis , which links word meaning to patterns of word use and systematically distinguishes patterns of normal usage from creative uses. After a year in Prague at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University , Prague, he returned to England as lead researcher on the FaNUK project in the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of

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168-482: The summer of 1988 and 1989, he was a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he co-authored with Ken Church influential papers on corpus-based statistical methods in lexical analysis. Hanks died on 1 February 2024, at the age of 83. From 1990 to 2000, Hanks served as chief editor of current English dictionaries at Oxford University Press (OUP). In 1991 to 1992, he

182-479: The world's major languages and on major issues in lexicography and lexicology. He edited a multivolume collection covering all aspects of lexicology for Routledge , and, with Rachel Giora, a companion collection covering all aspects of metaphor and figurative language. From 2005 to 2009 he was a senior research associate at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic , where he developed

196-681: Was joint principal investigator (with Mary-Claire van Leunen) of the HECTOR project at the Systems Research Center of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Palo Alto, CA. The HECTOR project was a collaboration between OUP and DEC, and although its results were never published, they served as a basis for the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), while the lexicographers working on it were also guinea-pig users in

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