Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Peter Ladefoged
![Peter Ladefoged](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: September 17, 1925
Died: January 4, 2006 (aged 80)
Bio: Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was a British linguist and phonetician who travelled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data.
Known for:
- A course in phonetics (1975)
- Vowels and Consonants (2001)
- The sounds of the world's languages (1996)
- Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (1962)
- Phonetic data analysis (2003)