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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
William Labov
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Born: December 4, 1927 (age 96)
Bio: William "Bill" Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics.
Known for:
- Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972)
- Principles of Linguistic Change (1994)
- Language in the inner city (1972)
- Atlas of North American English (2005)