| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
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| 1. Language generally |
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| NOUN: | LANGUAGE; phraseology [See Style]; speech [See Speech]; tongue, lingo [chiefly humorous or contemptuous], vernacular; mother -, vulgar -, native- tongue; household words; King’s or Queen’s English; dialect, brogue, patois [See Neology]; idiom, idiotism.
confusion of tongues, Babel; pasigraphie [F.], pasigraphy; universal language, Volapük, Esperanto, Ido; pantomime (signs) [See Indication].
LINGUISTICS, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, comparative philology; Grimm’s law, Verner’s law; comparative grammar, phonetics; chrestomathy; paleology or palæology, paleography or palæography.
onomatopœia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation.
LITERATURE, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [F.], muses, humanities, litterœ humaniores [L.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius -, spirit -, idiom- of a language; scholarship (knowledge) [See Knowledge].
LINGUIST (scholar) [See Scholar].
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| VERB: | EXPRESS, say, express by words [See Phrase].
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| ADJECTIVE: | LINGUAL, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary; colloquial, slangy.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Syllables govern the world.—Selden
- Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.—Carlyle
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