| Christine Ohuruogu |
1846: The first attestation of the word folklore appears in a review by Ambrose Merton (a k a William John Thomas) in the Athenaeum. The work reviewed is one of the folktale collections by the Grimm brothers.
1915: Ishi, the last speaker of Yana, has to terminate work with linguist Edward Sapir, as he is hospitalized anew.
2001: The Michelin group of France receives WorldLingo’s Multilingual Email Award. WorldLingo regularly tests various major companies’ ability to reply to email sent in foreign languages, and Michelin managed to provide an answer in German in just one hour and 17 minutes.
2004: Christine Ohuruogu runs for Britain in the Athens Olympics. Being one of the world’s fastest linguists, her 51-second dash gives her the fourth place in the women’s 400m semi-final, an event for which she took the gold medal in 2008 and the silver medal in 2012.
2005: National Punctuation Day in the USA, initiated by Californian Jeff Rubin, who wants to “remind people that punctuation wasn’t invented solely to put sideways smiley faces in e-mail”.
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