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Lee Hartman, <lhartman [at] siu [dot] edu>

Anthroponymy (study of personal names)	John Smith et al.:   Anomalies in the distribution of the most frequent given names and surnames in the U.S. Truly Wisconsin Surnames:   Some 200 family names that are more numerous in Wisconsin than in any other state
Corpus studies (statistics on a body of text)	Summer Pulls Ahead of Winter in Eight Languages!
Esperanto (constructed international language)	Kiel Esperanto povas komprenebligi rubgoldbergilojn  (How Esperanto Can Elucidate Rube Goldberg Contraptions)
History (nautical and mathematical)	History of A Sealing Voyage (1830, Falkland Islands, Daniel W. Lamb) Why x?  (Origins of the use of x in algebra)
Paremiology (study of proverbs)	Que Sera Sera:  The English Roots of a Pseudo-Spanish Proverb
Phono (computational sound change)	Try Phono online, with the models for Spanish and Pig Latin Download Phono for Windows Phono User's Guide (coming soon) Source code