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grammarian
[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a specialist or expert in grammar.
- 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
- a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
- the author of a grammar
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of grammarian1
Example Sentences
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."
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.
It鈥檚 considered wrong only because 200-plus years of grammarians have told us it is wrong, without solidly justifying that judgment.
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.
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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