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John Sinclair blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: John Sinclair set up the COBUILD project, pioneering a dictionary using ‘real-world’ text in 1987 Recorded plaque organisation: University of Birmingham.

From the Open Plaques record 7369

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