merry month thanks rick wojcik remembering remember jim mccawley dates month may interest linguists may 2 1919 baudouin de courtenay concedes defeat bid presidency poland may 3 1955 mouton co discover american libraries order books scheme cash starting several series books limericks person given charge project mishears starts several series books linguistics one ever notices mistake may 5 1403 great english vowel shift begins giles tottenham calls ale favorite pub perplexed barmaid tells fishmonger next door may 6 1939 university chicago trades leonard bloomfield yale university two janitors undisclosed number concrete gargoyles may 7 1966 rless pronunciation observed eight kindergarten pupils secaucus n j governor new jersey stations national guardsmen along banks hudson may 9 1917 n ja marr discovers rosh missing link japhetic unity may 11 1032 holy roman emperor conrad ii orders isoglosses erected across northern germany defense viking intruders may 12 1965 sydney lamb announces discovery hypersememic stratum setting wave selling nyse may 13 vowel day public holiday kabardian autonomous region ceremonial vowel pronounced kabardians symbol brotherhood speakers human languages may 14 519 b c birth panini may 15 1964 j katz j fodor separated 5 hour surgery neither recovers may 17 1966 j r ross tells clean joke may 18 1941 quang phuc dong captured japanese interned duration hostilities may 19 diphthong day public holiday australia may 20 473 b c publisher returns panini manuscript entitled _ saptadhyayi _ note requesting addition chapter phonology panini begins struggling meet publisher deadline may 21 1962 first mention _ sound _ pattern _ _ english press may 23 38 471 b c god creates language may 26 1945 zellig harris applies newly formulated discovery procedures discovers may 27 1969 george lakoff discovers global rule supermarkets cambridge mass struck frenzied buying canned goods may 29 1962 angular brackets discovered classes dismissed much latvian plum brandy consumed may 30 1939 charles f hockett finishes composing music linguistic society america anthem hear difference may 31 1951 chomsky discovers affix hopping reprimanded father discovering rules shabas