Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: June 12

Julius Pokorny
June 12

1887: Czech Indo-Europeanist Julius Pokorny—mainly known for his voluminous etymological research—is born in Prague.

1997: Dragon Systems launches a new computer program for speech-recognition, which has a vocabulary of 30 000 words.

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