philologist

Michael Sperberg-McQueen (18 May 1954 – 16 August 2024) was an American medieval German philologist and markup language specialist.

She was a classical philologist, translated works by Platon, Hieronymus, Martin Luther etc.

I would bet that there are more girls named Guinevere than girls named Jennifer for philologist reasons.

Wikipedia also cites this to a 10th-century Byzantine encylcopedia which Eustathius is known to have been familiar with, and to a 5th-century Greek philologist.

You'd want the opinion of a philologist, and you'd want it to be supported by something, which as you can see Pliny doesn't do.

Another way it could be from Ampere is that his son was a philologist and could have conceivably promoted the idea of an ampersand.

Ex-philologist and historical linguist here, and I don't find the heuristics all the improbable.

Of course, I did not realize that Tolkien was philologist...

Compared to the ancient greeks he as a philologist knew quite a bit about he found the christians and the power dynamics they introduce devious and in some regards more sophisticated.

But also, he is a linguist, and a philologist, and an exquisite scholar, and despite his get-off-my-language-lawn blog entry, he is quite learned.

He's not a real philologist, it's great that he managed to get a peer reviewed journal to accept his work, but it's still a crank conspiracy theory attempting to wave away evidence.

I am not a linguist or a philologist or whatever the right term is, but one other way of generating new words is to add a prefix in front.

Another real & interesting source: "The Language of the Third Reich," by Victor Klemperer (philologist, brother of the renowned conductor, he flew away from Nazi Germany).

Funnily "pure" itself is a latinism by that approach, and I guess most Germananic roots will be linked to Indo-European reconstruction by modern philologist standards, anyway.

An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people.

Given that 'senator' is the direct Latin word that predates 'treason' (in its modern English spelling) by thousands of years, it has to be the latter, so do you think some philologist is sitting around going "ah yes, we should spell traïson as treason so that it's a perfect anagram to use as a pun for an office that won't exist for another few hundred years"?