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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 36:1 (2009) ► pp. 181–189
Miscellaneous

“Les voyelles ne font rien, et les consonnes fort peu de chose”

On the history of Voltaire’s supposed comment on etymology

| University of Alberta
Published online: 06 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.19con
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