[Ads-l] Antedating of "Linguistics"

[Shapiro, Fred]

linguistics (OED 1837)

1829 _Connecticut Herald_ 7 July 1 (America's Historical Newspapers)  Such ... are exactly not the words, that a "linguistic" teacher ... ought to have used, to convey his "grammatical" ideas ... to the minds of beginners in Hebrew "linguistics."

Fred Shapiro

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