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| Esperanto Studies |
July 26
1869: In England, the Disestablishment Bill was passed, officially dissolving the Church of Ireland. Organized opposition to this legislation by time coins a word widely believed to be the longest in the English language: antidisestablishmentarianism.
1887: The first Esperanto textbook is released on this date.
1941: Benjamin Lee Whorf, who formulated the strong version of the notorious Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, dies in Connecticut.
1950: Upon his death, George Bernard Shaw leaves a will which devotes money to the design and propagation of a new English spelling. Shaw—who was incidentally also born on this day—also has another linguistic connection, in that he made Henry Higgins—the main character of his play Pygmalion—a phonetician.
1999: The first issue of Esperanto Studies is published by Bambu Publications in Bulgaria.
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