Word: jiangyong
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DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, fears and sorrows, particularly laments in marriage...
...Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived...
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