From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:   
      
    > Wikipedia:   
    >   
    >   William Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; (December 4, 1927 – December   
    >   17, 2024) was 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, and   
    >   "one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st   
    >   centuries".   
      
   Some universally positive comments on Language Log:   
      
   https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399   
      
   Odd surname to me. Wikipedia lists him as Jewish; is it something that makes   
   sense from the Pale of Settlement?   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)