Here's what's been happening

[Ross Clark]

Yes, I'm back. Highlights of my travels":

- World's largest indoor waterfall (The Jewel, Changi Airport, Singapore)
- Chartres cathedral, with "Illuminations"
- Boat on the Medway going through Tonbridge Lock on a rainy Saturday
morning
- Jardins de Quatre-Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec

But here's what happened in Crystal's _A Date With Language_:

12/7 New Conversations Day
13/7 Wole Soyinka born, 1934
14/7 Richard Taverner died, 1575
15/7 Launch of Twitter, 2006
16/7 Mark Evans born, 1919
17/7 World Emoji Day
18/7 John Hart became Chester Herald, 1567
19/7 Alan Lomax died, 2002
20/7 Deborah Schiffrin died, 2017
21/7 Jonathan Miller born, 1934
22/7 Sponsor's Day
23/7 Yada Yada Yada Day
24/7 Robert Graves born, 1895
25/7 Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, 1834
26/7 Esperanto Day
27/7 Hilaire Belloc born, 1870
28/7 Gerard Manley Hopkins born, 1844
29/7 Braj Kachru died, 2016
30/7 Jean Arasanayagam died, 2019
31/7 Denis Diderot died, 1784

1/8 Yorkshire Day
2/8 William S.Burroughs died, 1997
3/8 P.D.James born, 1920
4/8 Percy Bysshe Shelley born, 1792
5/8 Toni Morrison died, 2019
6/8 National Gossip Day
7/8 Professional Speakers Day
8/8 Terry Nation born, 1930
9/8 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
10/8 Julia Mood Peterkin died, 1962
11/8 Geoff Nunberg died, 2020
12/8 Paule Marshall died, 2019
13/8 Joyce Carol Thomas died, 2016
14/8 Thomas Sheridan died, 1788
15/8 E.Nesbit born, 1858
16/8 National Tell A Joke Day
17/8 Meaning of 'is' Day
18/8 Virginia Dare born, 1587
19/8 Ogden Nash born, 1902
20/8 Voyager 2 launched, 1977
21/8 Lady Mary Worley Montagu died, 1762
22/8 Dorothy Parker born, 1893
23/8 Tom McArthur born, 1938
24/8 Jorge Luis Borges born, 1899
25/8 Thomas Dekker died, 1632
26/8 Elizebeth Smith Friedman born, 1892
27/8 Neville Alexander died, 2012
28/8 Paul Grice died, 1988
29/8 Sybill Marshall died, 2005
30/8 John Kani born, 1943
31/8 We Love Memoirs Day

Feel free to discuss any of these (or not), to ask (or answer) the
inevitable "who?" "what??" "why???" questions. I may do so myself.

But tomorrow: September!

[Aidan Kehoe]

Post by Ross Clark
Yes, I'm back.

Welcome back! It hasn’t been buzzing here with you away. I had idle plans to
fish out my World’s Writing Systems and summarise a chapter a week here, but,
you know, business to run, family to spend time with.

Post by Ross Clark
- World's largest indoor waterfall (The Jewel, Changi Airport, Singapore)
- Chartres cathedral, with "Illuminations"
- Boat on the Medway going through Tonbridge Lock on a rainy Saturday morning
- Jardins de Quatre-Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec

Looks all very agreeable, I do hope there were no logistical hiccups that put
you all in misery.

Post by Ross Clark
12/7 New Conversations Day
13/7 Wole Soyinka born, 1934
14/7 Richard Taverner died, 1575
15/7 Launch of Twitter, 2006
16/7 Mark Evans born, 1919
17/7 World Emoji Day
18/7 John Hart became Chester Herald, 1567
19/7 Alan Lomax died, 2002
20/7 Deborah Schiffrin died, 2017
21/7 Jonathan Miller born, 1934
22/7 Sponsor's Day
23/7 Yada Yada Yada Day
24/7 Robert Graves born, 1895
25/7 Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, 1834
26/7 Esperanto Day
27/7 Hilaire Belloc born, 1870
28/7 Gerard Manley Hopkins born, 1844
29/7 Braj Kachru died, 2016
30/7 Jean Arasanayagam died, 2019
31/7 Denis Diderot died, 1784
1/8 Yorkshire Day
2/8 William S.Burroughs died, 1997
3/8 P.D.James born, 1920
4/8 Percy Bysshe Shelley born, 1792
5/8 Toni Morrison died, 2019
6/8 National Gossip Day
7/8 Professional Speakers Day
8/8 Terry Nation born, 1930
9/8 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
10/8 Julia Mood Peterkin died, 1962
11/8 Geoff Nunberg died, 2020
12/8 Paule Marshall died, 2019
13/8 Joyce Carol Thomas died, 2016
14/8 Thomas Sheridan died, 1788
15/8 E.Nesbit born, 1858
16/8 National Tell A Joke Day
17/8 Meaning of 'is' Day
18/8 Virginia Dare born, 1587
19/8 Ogden Nash born, 1902
20/8 Voyager 2 launched, 1977
21/8 Lady Mary Worley Montagu died, 1762
22/8 Dorothy Parker born, 1893
23/8 Tom McArthur born, 1938
24/8 Jorge Luis Borges born, 1899
25/8 Thomas Dekker died, 1632
26/8 Elizebeth Smith Friedman born, 1892
27/8 Neville Alexander died, 2012
28/8 Paul Grice died, 1988
29/8 Sybill Marshall died, 2005
30/8 John Kani born, 1943
31/8 We Love Memoirs Day
Feel free to discuss any of these (or not), to ask (or answer) the inevitable
"who?" "what??" "why???" questions. I may do so myself.

Diderot’s mildly interesting and more relevant than the rest; what does he say
on him?

Post by Ross Clark
But tomorrow: September!