philological
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The book — each section of which opens with an epigram from Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” — eventually bogs down in philological digression.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
English slang is a field rich for tillage, as Max Décharné proves in “Vulgar Tongues,” a triumph of philological research and mordant social commentary.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2017
“When is this papyrological pantomime, this Keystone Coptic, this academic farce, this philological burlesque finally going to stop?”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2015
Beneath this philological fracas lay a truth evident to political speechwriters, eulogists, and news anchors: in times of tragedy, language matters.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2015
All the arguments, archæological and philological, erected and advanced by mere erudition will not convince me to the contrary.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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