Plural of linguist
regular plural
The plural of linguist is linguists.
Forms of linguist
| Singular | linguist /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | linguists |
| Countable | countable |
Linguists in a sentence
- Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast...
- Esperanto can make a good stepping stone language to Latin, which may be difficult for amateur linguists.From the entry stepping stone
- A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.From the entry relict
- Linguists will see that we reject some assumptions quite widely held in twentieth-century generative linguistics.2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge…. From the entry head
- “Mandarin” is what linguists call an exonym, an external name for a place, people, or language.2019 January 4, Sarah Zhang, “Why Mandarin Doesn’t Come From Chinese”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2019. From the entry exonym
Meaning of linguist
- noun One who studies linguistics.
- noun One who studies modern-day linguistics, that is, linguistic science.
- noun A person skilled in languages.
Questions about the plural of linguist
- What is the plural of linguist?
- The plural of linguist is linguists.
- Is linguist countable?
- Linguist is a countable noun.
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