Sunday, September 9, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: September 9

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Grace Murray Hopper
September 9

1945: The word “bug” gets a new application when U S Navy Lieutenant Grace Murray Hopper finds an actual bug stuck in a computer relay.
 
1975: English ethnographer Eric Thompson, who succeeded in deciphering the Maya hieroglyphs, dies.

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