Quote of the day
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Guy Cook

Born: October 10, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Guy W. D. Cook is an applied linguist. He is currently Professor of Language in Education at King's College London in the UK and is also Chair of The British Association for Applied Linguistics for the period 2009-2012.
Known for:
- The discourse of advertising (1992)
- Applied Linguistics (2003)
- Language Play, Language Learning (2000)
- Genetically modified language (2004)