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linguistics The new speechwriter, who had majored in linguistics, was soon putting his knowledge of the deceptive tricks of language to good use. lɪŋgˈwɪstɪks

Accepted Answer

The study of human speech. Any analysis of language, including 8th-grade grammar, can be called linguistics. As recently as 200 years ago, ordinary grammar was about the only kind of linguistics there was. Today a linguist may be a person who learns foreign languages, but the term usually refers to people who devote themselves to analyzing the structure of language. Many linguists concentrate on the history of a language; others study the way children learn to speak; others analyze the sounds of a language—and still others just study English grammar, a subject so big that you could easily spend your entire life on it

word	linguistics
definition	The study of human speech.
eg_sentence	The new speechwriter, who had majored in linguistics, was soon putting his knowledge of the deceptive tricks of language to good use.
explanation	Any analysis of language, including 8th-grade grammar, can be called linguistics. As recently as 200 years ago, ordinary grammar was about the only kind of linguistics there was. Today a linguist may be a person who learns foreign languages, but the term usually refers to people who devote themselves to analyzing the structure of language. Many linguists concentrate on the history of a language; others study the way children learn to speak; others analyze the sounds of a language—and still others just study English grammar, a subject so big that you could easily spend your entire life on it
IPA	lɪŋgˈwɪstɪks

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