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| Larry Hyman |
August 15
1877: A letter from inventor Thomas Alva Edison to TBA David, president of Pittsburgh’s Central District and Printing Telegraph Company includes the first written attestation of the word hello.
1975: In the search for a gender-neutral pronoun to replace he and she, H R Lee of Virginia proposes se ([si]) in Forbes.
1981: Phonologist and Bantuist Larry Hyman gets 5,000 American dollars to investigate the prosodic structure of Luganda.
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