| A later view, endorsed by Otto Jespersen, held that a fairly analytic language such as English represented the best and most evolved type of structure. |
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| Jespersen later supplied phonetic transcriptions of the entries in Brynildsen's English and Dano-Norwegian Dictionary, which was the century's first pronouncing dictionary. |
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| In 1928 Ido's major intellectual supporter, the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, abandoned Ido, and published his own planned language, Novial. |
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| The idea of making the IPA was first suggested by Otto Jespersen in a letter to Paul Passy. |
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| After his retirement in 1925, Jespersen remained active in the international linguistic community. |
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