November 2
For Croatians, this is the Anniversary of the Croatian Language, commemo-rating the orthography of Ivan Broz.
1949: Timothy Evans of London "confesses” to having murdered his wife and child, for which crime he was hanged. Linguistic evidence later casts doubt on the confession leading ultimately to a posthumous pardon.
2003: McDonald’s demands that ‘McJob’ be removed from the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. The word has come to be applied to low-paid, unqualified employment, but McDonald’s claims copyright, having registered McJobs as the name of its internal training program.
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