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| Jacob Grimm |
January 4
1785: Jacob Grimm, one of the Grimm brothers famous for their fairy tales, but also a linguist, is born in Hanau (Germany).
1813: Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, amateur linguist and prince of France is born.
1894: In a letter to Antoine Meillet, Saussure underscores the importance of politics and external history in historical linguistics.
2002: At its San Francisco meeting, the American Dialect Society votes daisy cutter (a large bomb that explodes a meter or so above the ground) as the euphemism of the year.
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