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William Barnes, portrait by G. Stuckey, c. 1870; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Barnes

English poet

Biagio Marin

Italian poet

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Hermann Collitz

American linguist

Assen, Ivar

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

Bridel, etching after a portrait by Franz Doyen, c. 1800

Philippe-Sirice Bridel

Swiss author

Graziadio Isaia Ascoli

Italian linguist

Antanas Baranauskas

Lithuanian poet

Friedrich Bechtel

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YOLO "You Only Live Once" written in bright colors and repeated on a purple background (acronym, slang)

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