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Yes, I think the writer means 'and in later years'. The seven volumes were published in 1909, 1914, 1927, 1931, 1940, 1942, and 1949. I've changed the '1909ff' to '1909-49' --
gramorak (
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12:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the suggestion. In other languages, 'ff appears just as in this English edition. I will correct some of them.
Sibazyun (
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02:53, 4 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Encyclopaedia Britannica author/editor
He is listed in my 1951 (14th ed.) copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the author of an article of central importance within the field of linguistics: "Language." Would this be worth mentioning in his bio here?
97.82.251.9 (
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18:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC)reply
I would strongly doubt that he was the first to study something whose existence has been fairly obvious since at least the eighteenth century to many people who have been struck by the fact that the written vowel letters a, e, i etc. are often pronounced very differently in English vs. many continental European languages...
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10:43, 12 November 2014 (UTC)reply
He was the one who gave it the name it's now known by, and may have been among the earliest to study it systematically from a linguistic point of view, but I find it extremely difficult to believe that he was the first to notice or discuss it. Almost any Spanish-, Italian-, or German-language speaker in the 18th or 19th centuries who was trying to learn English would have wondered why the heck the letters "a", "e", and "i" often have very strange sound-values in English (at a minimum)...
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Yes, I think the writer means 'and in later years'. The seven volumes were published in 1909, 1914, 1927, 1931, 1940, 1942, and 1949. I've changed the '1909ff' to '1909-49' --
gramorak (
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12:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the suggestion. In other languages, 'ff appears just as in this English edition. I will correct some of them.
Sibazyun (
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02:53, 4 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Encyclopaedia Britannica author/editor
He is listed in my 1951 (14th ed.) copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the author of an article of central importance within the field of linguistics: "Language." Would this be worth mentioning in his bio here?
97.82.251.9 (
talk)
18:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC)reply
I would strongly doubt that he was the first to study something whose existence has been fairly obvious since at least the eighteenth century to many people who have been struck by the fact that the written vowel letters a, e, i etc. are often pronounced very differently in English vs. many continental European languages...
AnonMoos (
talk)
10:43, 12 November 2014 (UTC)reply
He was the one who gave it the name it's now known by, and may have been among the earliest to study it systematically from a linguistic point of view, but I find it extremely difficult to believe that he was the first to notice or discuss it. Almost any Spanish-, Italian-, or German-language speaker in the 18th or 19th centuries who was trying to learn English would have wondered why the heck the letters "a", "e", and "i" often have very strange sound-values in English (at a minimum)...
AnonMoos (
talk)
08:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)reply