Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Geoffrey Sampson

Born: 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation standards for compiling corpora of ordinary usage of the English language.
Known for:
- Schools of linguistics (1980)
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (1985)
- English for the computer (1995)
- Empirical linguistics (2001)