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The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.
Jack Goody
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Jack Goody
Age: 95 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 27
Died: 2015
Died: July 15
Anthropologist
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Sociologist
University Teacher
Hammersmith
London
John Rankine Goody
J. R. Goody
Sir John Rankine Goody
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