Sunday, April 14, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: April 14

Roger Brown
April 14 

1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is published as The American Dictionary of the English Language.

1852: Birth (in Mühringen, Germany) of Maximilian Berlitzheimer, founder of the Berlitz Language Schools.

1917: Death of Ludwig Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.

1925: Birth of psycholinguist Roger Brown.

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