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grammarian

[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a specialist or expert in grammar.
  2. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.


grammarian

/ 伞谤蓹藞尘蓻蓹谤瑟蓹苍 /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
  2. the author of a grammar
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of grammarian1

1350鈥1400; Middle English gramarien < Old French gramairien. See grammar, -ian
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As professional grammarian Benjamin Dreyer noted on Bluesky, "Amateurs don't dabble in the Leo Frank case; that takes an exceedingly well practiced professional anti-Semite."

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In that sentence, some grammarians put a comma after the word sandwiches 鈥 that鈥檚 an Oxford comma 鈥 while some leave it out.

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It鈥檚 considered wrong only because 200-plus years of grammarians have told us it is wrong, without solidly justifying that judgment.

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Punctilious as Mr. Richards may have been, he told the New York Times that there were many grammarians more 鈥渕ilitant鈥 than he.

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This 鈥済ospel鈥 was worldwide news 鈥 before skeptical papyrologists and grammarians, in one case drawing on the research of an amateur Coptic obsessive working in his Macomb, Mich., basement, showed it to be a complete fake.

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