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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Catching up
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:26:45 +1200
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On 12/09/2024 3:15 a.m., guido wugi wrote:
> Op 11-9-2024 om 12:07 schreef Ross Clark:
>> 5/9 Lewis Nkosi died (2010)  [South African writer]
>> 6/9   (...)
>>
>> 7/9    I.A.Richards died (1979) [...]
>>
>> 8/9   (...)
>> 9/9   (...)
>> 10/9    Mary Wollstonecraft died (1797)
>>     (...)
>> 11/9    Hannah Weiner died (1997)     (...)
> 
> There's quite some dying going on in linguactivityland ;-)

I noticed, early in the year, that Crystal seemed to have more deathdays 
than birthdays in his book. It may be true, but I haven't bothered to 
count. I suppose you could argue that the stuff we remember people for 
tends to be closer to the former than the latter.