Friday, January 25, 2013

The Linguist's Calendar: January 25

Karel Čapek


January 25 

1921: Karel Čapek’s play RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) premieres in Prague, and includes the first use of the word robot.
 
1939: Birth of controversial Australianist Bob Dixon (in Gloucester, England).
 
1967: From this day, Swedish laws no longer contain plural forms of verbs, long since absent from spoken language.

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