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philology
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Definition:1. Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] Johnson.2. The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.3. A treatise on the science of language.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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it has occurred to me that philology may be aided by taking a record of the sounds made by a number of children daily through a period of two or three years from birth. The few experiments which I have tried in this particular line are sufficient to show that the growth of speech obeys certain laws in the development of vocal power.
R.L. Garner. The Speech of Monkeys (1892)
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