Friday, September 21, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: September 21

Antoine Meillet
September 21

1936: Death at the age of 70 of Antoine Meillet in Châteaumeillant.
 
1938: In the Liverpool Echo, a Gregory Hynes proposes "se," sim" and "sis" as gender-neutral pronouns to replace he, she and their variants. Exactly half a century later, Eugene Wine of the Miami-Dade Community College in Florida suggests "e," since other pronoun forms “have already been reduced to a single vowel sound.”

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