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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
| Kathy Acker, Activist (1947) |
| Justin Amash, Politician (1980) |
| Andre Bazin, Critic (1918) |
| Reeve Carney, Actor (1983) |
| Clarence Darrow, Lawyer (1857) |
| Richard Harding Davis, Journalist (1864) |
| Susan Faludi, Writer (1959) |
| America Ferrera, Actress (1984) |
| Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete (1973) |
| Saad Hariri, Politician (1970) |
| Erasmus Darwin, Scientist (1802) |
| Albert Einstein, Physicist (1955) |
| John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1945) |


