Well, if Margaret Masterman (who would NOT wear knickers) founded the "Cambridge Language Research Unit" I hereby infallibly assert that the OLRU (Oxford Language Reseach Unit) was founded, apocryphally, by Grice.
"We would meet at St. John´s. Austin would tell us: "games" today. So we would spend the Saturday morning -- from 10:30 to 12:30 analysing "rule", "game", "play". I once suggested "cricket", but he thought it was not general enough (His actual words: "Your specificity bores me")."
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