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	He is well known for his book and cassette <cite>Accents of English</cite>, the book and CD <cite>The Sounds of the IPA</cite>, <cite>Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto</cite>, and <cite>the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary</cite>. He is the author of the most widely used English-Esperanto dictionary.		He is well known for his book and cassette <cite>Accents of English</cite>, the book and CD <cite>The Sounds of the IPA</cite>, <cite>Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto</cite>, and <cite>the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary</cite>. He is the author of the most widely used English-Esperanto dictionary.

	Wells was president of the World Esperanto Association (UEA) from 1989 to 1995. He is currently president of the Esperanto Association of Britain and since 2007 has been president of the Esperanto Academy.		Wells was president of the World [[Esperanto]] Association (UEA) from 1989 to 1995. He is currently president of the Esperanto Association of Britain and since 2007 has been president of the Esperanto Academy.

	Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>		Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>

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	[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939 in [[Bootle]], Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at [[University College London]].		[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939 in [[Bootle]], Merseyside) is a British phonetician and [[Esperanto]] teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at [[University College London]].

	He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>		He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>

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Ross Burgess at 09:30, 7 August 2013

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	[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939 in [[Bootle]], Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.		[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939 in [[Bootle]], Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at [[University College London]].

	He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>		He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>

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	[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.		[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939 in [[Bootle]], Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.

	John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939 in Bootle, Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics.

	His father was originally from South Africa, and his mother was English; he has two younger brothers. After a childhood in poverty, he studied languages and taught himself Gregg Shorthand. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be homosexual at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.

	He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>		He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>

Ross Burgess at 21:37, 19 October 2012

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	[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.		[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.

			John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939 in Bootle, Merseyside) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics.

			His father was originally from South Africa, and his mother was English; he has two younger brothers. After a childhood in poverty, he studied languages and taught himself Gregg Shorthand. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be homosexual at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.

	He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>		He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>

Ross Burgess at 22:12, 29 March 2012

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Ross Burgess at 22:10, 10 March 2012

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	Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>		Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>

	Wells' first boyfriend was Jamaican, and he has retained a keen interest in the West Indies, and Caribbean varieties of English. His civil partner, Gabriel, is from Montserrat, and they have houses ~~both~~ in Montserrat (replacing an earlier house that was destroyed by a volcano in 1997) and Merton Park, South London.		Wells' first serious boyfriend was Jamaican, and he has retained a keen interest in the West Indies, and Caribbean varieties of English. His civil partner, Gabriel, is from Montserrat, and they have houses in Montserrat (replacing an earlier house that was destroyed by a volcano in 1997) and in Merton Park, South London.

	Wells is a keen amateur runner, and has completed a number of marathons.		Wells is a keen amateur runner, and has completed a number of marathons.

Ross Burgess at 19:32, 10 March 2012

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	[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.		[[File:John Wells 1991.jpg\|thumb\|J C Wells in 1991]]John Christopher Wells (born 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Until his retirement in 2006 he was professor of phonetics at University College London.

	~~After a childhood~~ in ~~poverty, he studied~~ languages ~~and taught himself Gregg Shorthand~~. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>		He early developed an interest in languages. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; he has a reasonable knowledge of ten different languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification, but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gsy at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his homosexuality public.<ref>[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/philsoc-bio.htm Bio at UCL].</ref>

	He is well known for his book and cassette <cite>Accents of English</cite>, the book and CD <cite>The Sounds of the IPA</cite>, <cite>Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto</cite>, and <cite>the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary</cite>. He is the author of the most widely used English-Esperanto dictionary.		He is well known for his book and cassette <cite>Accents of English</cite>, the book and CD <cite>The Sounds of the IPA</cite>, <cite>Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto</cite>, and <cite>the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary</cite>. He is the author of the most widely used English-Esperanto dictionary.
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	Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>		Wells is a member of the [[London Gay Men's Chorus]] and has featured in their <cite>It Gets Better</cite> video.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-BjfAvW6o&feature=related</ref> He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.<ref>See "Personal" section on http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/</ref>

			Wells' first boyfriend was Jamaican, and he has retained a keen interest in the West Indies, and Caribbean varieties of English. His civil partner, Gabriel, is from Montserrat, and they have houses both in Montserrat (replacing an earlier house that was destroyed by a volcano in 1997) and Merton Park, South London.

			Wells is a keen amateur runner, and has completed a number of marathons.

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