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The most important contribution to comparative linguistics was made by Sir William Jones (1746-94), a British linguist trained in the law who was appointed judge of the supreme court of judicature at Calcutta, in 1783.
(British linguist Deborah Cameron in Feminism and Linguistic Theory doubts these lacunae, suggesting that English is flexible, and that women are disadvantaged primarily by alienation from high language.)
From the cover: [P]rovides a clear, easily understood course in statistics for the linguist who works with real linguistic data from real subjects and converts those finding into numbers.
If one asks a professional linguist why he doesn't say things like He don't or spell pursuant persuant, the reply is likely to be, He don't is not part of my speech pattern, and I simply do not spell pursuant that way.
Roger Flavell is a linguist, a scholar who has been interested in idioms for many years and was co-author of On Idioms , in the Exeter Linguistics Series.