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March 11
1914: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, with a phonetician as one of the main characters is performed for the first time in the author’s home country. Its original premiere took place in Vienna.
1986: The French language law of 1975 is supplanted by a new decree, intended to lead to the “enrichissement de la langue française."
2000: Edgar Polomé, who—among other things—established the first linguistics department in Belgian Congo, dies in Houston, Texas.
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