The Linguist’s Calendar: May 12
1891: Otto Jespersen defends his PhD thesis, Studier Over Engelske Kasus.
1906: “Great name changing day”—24,800 Finns switch from Swedish to Finnish-sounding surnames.
1948: Andrew Booth’s computer intended for machine translation experiments becomes operational.
2005:
For the very first time, a British member of parliament swears allegiance to the Queen in Cornish. While Welsh and Scots Gaelic had
been used in this context before, Andrew George of St Ives became the
first to swear an oath ending in Ytho Dew re’m gweressa rather than So help me God.
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