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Did we mishear Neil Armstrong's famous first words on the Moon?

  • Written by Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon
It's the case of the missing 'a.'Nick Lehr/The Conversation via NASA, CC BY-SA

On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon.

As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s...

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