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  • Linguists disagree about the best way to handle a pronoun referring to a single person whose gender is unknown.
    linguists = specialists in the study of language
  • The linguist testified as to the meaning of "event". It would cost the insurance company an additional 3.5 billion dollars if the jury determined that the Twin Towers were brought down by two events instead of one.
    linguist = a specialist in the study of language
  • Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, linguists ….  (source)
    linguists = specialists in the study of language
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  • Indeed there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the noun originated.†  (source)
    linguists = language specialists
  • He had just been reading the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky.†  (source)
    linguist = a language specialist; or someone skilled in multiple languages
  • If it were down on the Atlantic, now, where a seafaring man has occasion sometimes to converse with a pilot, or a linguister, in that language, I should not think so much of it,—though we always look with suspicion, even there, at a shipmate who knows too much of the tongue; but up here, on Ontario, I hold it to be a most suspicious circumstance.†  (source)
    linguister = an archaic term for someone who translates or interprets a foreign language
  • "Not as far as modern-day linguists can tell," the Librarian says.†  (source)
    linguists = language specialists
  • A born linguist, Molly began to learn a Senegalese local language, Wolof, and then signed up for the Peace Corps in Senegal.†  (source)
    linguist = a language specialist; or someone skilled in multiple languages
  • Perhaps she didn't understand you, woman; you are none of the best linguister; and then Miss Lizzy has been exercising the king's English under a great Lon'on lady, and, for that matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject.†  (source)
    linguister = an archaic term for someone who translates or interprets a foreign language
  • These cats do their best, but they're not linguists.†  (source)
    linguists = language specialists
  • "And Master Linguist," said the Chancellor.†  (source)
    Linguist = a language specialist; or someone skilled in multiple languages
  • "Look you here, old grey-beard," said Ishmael, seizing the trapper, and whirling him round as if he had been a top; "that I am tired of carrying on a discourse with fingers and thumbs, instead of a tongue, ar' a natural fact; so you'll play linguister and put my words into Indian, without much caring whether they suit the stomach of a Red-skin or not."†  (source)
    linguister = an archaic term for someone who translates or interprets a foreign language
  • The linguists in the crowd.†  (source)
    linguists = language specialists
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