grammarians

Hyperbole is, I believe, the term grammarians use for it.

The Street Called Straight Basil King 1893

For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me.

The Confessions 1999

He also calls him the son of M+ShQ+ (mesek,) concerning the meaning of which word grammarians are not agreed.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me.

The First Book 1909

'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 Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

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 Various 1868

Apparently all depends on the 'grammarians' who chose to base spellings on Latin or

Crooks and Liars bluegal 2011

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,

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

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."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

"The grammarians are a sort of military body, who disturb the public peace.

Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. Ludvig Holberg 1719