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- n. Plural form of grammarian.
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“Hyperbole is, I believe, the term grammarians use for it.”
“He also calls him the son of M+ShQ+ (mesek,) concerning the meaning of which word grammarians are not agreed.”
“For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me.”
“The doctrine of the Vaw conversive is simply a figment of so-called grammarians; language is not an artificial product, but a natural mode of expressing ideas.”
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
“The unit of the tongue remains the word, not the sentence, and we find no immeasurable words, expressing in themselves a whole paragraph, such as grammarians like to quote from the”
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
“Apparently all depends on the 'grammarians' who chose to base spellings on Latin or”
“Middle Ages of the West, is very weak from the literary point of view, but yet possessed a number of interesting and valuable historians (Joseph of Byzantium, Comnenus, etc.) and skilled and learned grammarians, that is professors of language and literature (Eustathius, Cephalon, Planudes,”
“The ancient authorities from Homer to the Byzantine "grammarians" occasionally succumbed to the itch and offered explanations and derivations of the names of their characters; and jolly silly they often were, in the class of the etymology that was offered by sixteenth-century antiquarians for the origin of the name of the town of Windsor on the Thames: "Because the wind bloweth sore there.”
“The grammarians are a sort of military body, who disturb the public peace.”
“Le Guin's 1994 afterword for The left Hand of Darkness, called The Gender of Pronouns: What a very dry, dull matter, of no conceivable importance to anyone but grammarians and pedants!”
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