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My recollection is that it appeared in a pamphlet written by Carol Padden and Charlotte Baker in the early 1970s. I'm copying Carol on this in case she doesn't always read SLLING-L and can respond.<div>SDF</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Susan D. Fischer</div><div><a href="mailto:Susan.Fischer@rit.edu">Susan.Fischer@rit.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Center for Research on Language</div><div>UCSD</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Lorraine Leeson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear colleagues, <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm forwarding this message on behalf of Myriam Vermeerbergen who has experienced a technical glitch with accessing the list for the moment....and at the same time will take the opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year! </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Lorraine Leeson<br>-----<br><br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>It is often reported that the convention to distinguish between deaf <br>(with lower case d) and Deaf with upper case started with Woodward's<br>paper "Implications for Sociolinguistic Research among the<br>Deaf" (published in Sign Language Studies, Volume 1, in 1972).<br>However, when consulting this paper, I found that there was no sign <br>of the distinction.<br><br>I assume that the source of the distinction might be another<br>publication by Woodward (possibly his 1973 dissertation or his 1982<br>"How You Gonna Get to Heaven....." book) but I haven't been able to <br>confirm this.<br><br>Therefor this message: does someone maybe know where and when the<br>deaf/Deaf convention started?<br>Many thanks in advance.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Myriam Vermeerbergen<br><a href="mailto:mvermeer@mac.com"> mvermeer@mac.com</a><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Lorraine Leeson<br>Director <br>Centre for Deaf Studies<br>School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences<br>Trinity College Dublin<br>40 Lower Drumcondra Road <br>Drumcondra, Dublin 9<br><br>Tel: + 353 (0) 1 830 11 66 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SLLING-L mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>