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And many of my students in introductory linguistics courses confuse etymology (word origins) with entomology (the study of insects).
My student Brigitte Harris, who is from Ontario, immediately observed many peculiarities of usage when she arrived in Montreal to earn an M.A. degree in applied linguistics at Concordia University.
As for completeness, writing systems are a bit off my beaten track, and I dare not offer an opinion; as for authority, while Peter T. Daniels' name is not familiar to me, the work of William Bright, Professor Emeritus of linguistics at UCLA and erstwhile editor (for twenty-two years) of Language , the journal of the Linguistics Society of America, is well known to me, chiefly in his latter capacity.
No less an authority than Professor Robert A. Hall, Jr., of Cornell University, one of the world's leading figures in Romance linguistics and historical linguistics, the author of dozens of scholarly books and hundreds of scholarly articles, states that it derives ultimately from Cantonese Pidgin Portuguese through Chinese Pidgin English ( Pidgin and Creole Languages , Cornell University Press, 1966, p.
Spirit Pond Runestones, A Study in Linguistics