Quote of the day
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
William Labov

Born: December 4, 1927
Died: December 17, 2024 (aged 97)
Bio: William "Bill" Labov was an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He was 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)