different between grammar vs speechlore

English

Alternative forms

• grammary (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English gramer, gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (grammatik?, “skilled in writing”), from ?????? (grámma, “line of writing”), from ????? (gráph?, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???æ.m?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: gr?'m?r, IPA^(key): /???æ.m?/
• Rhymes: -æm?(?)
• Hyphenation: gram?mar

Noun

grammar (countable and uncountable, plural grammars)

1. A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
3. A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
4. (computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
   • 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.2

     Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.

5. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
6. (computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
   • 2011, Javier Solana and Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power:

     We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.

8. (Britain, archaic) A textbook.

   a grammar of geography

9. (Britain) A grammar school.
   • 2012, Graeme Paton, A green light for more grammars? (in The Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2012)

Synonyms

• (study & field of study in medieval Latin contexts): glomery
• (linguistics): morpho-syntax (from the relationship between morphology and syntax)

Hyponyms

• context-sensitive grammar
• finite-state grammar
• Turing-complete grammar
• normative grammar

Derived terms

Related terms

• glamour
• gramarye

Translations

Verb

grammar (third-person singular simple present grammars, present participle grammaring, simple past and past participle grammared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

   • She is in her Moods, and her Tenses:
     I'll Grammar with you,
     And make a trial how I can decline you

See also

• grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Glossary of grammar
• Category:Grammar

Further reading

• grammar at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

Manx

Noun

grammar m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. grammar

Mutation

Synonyms

• grammeydys

Related terms

• grammeydagh
• neughrammeydoil

English

Etymology

From speech +? lore.

Noun

speechlore (uncountable)

1. The science, study, or knowledge of language or speech; linguistics.
   • 1865, British Archaeological Association, The archaeological journal: Volume 22:

     I know it may be said that place names are very unsafe ground, as they are mostly taken by wild casts of thought ; but the truth is that they are more or less trustworthy, as they are taken upon wider or narrower grounds of speechlore.

   • 1877, David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Macmillan's magazine: Volume 35:

     It says they were driven forth by another race; and it is markworthy that it makes the Magyares, or Hungarians as we call them, to be what speechlore has now found them to be, Finns, or of the Finnish race, [...]

   • 1910, Benito Pérez Galdós, The grandfather:

     Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) naturally enabled him to do.

   • 1984, James W. Parins, William Barnes:

     [...] in Athenaeum called him "an enthusiast," which almost goes without saying, but went on to say that his book is valuable inasmuch as it does "do good, as it teaches many overlooked (I [Barnes] say little known) points of speechlore.

2. (nonce word) Philology; grammar.
   • 1887, Leader Scott, The life of William Barnes:

     After the publication of Redecraft, nearly all William Barnes's literary energies were given to "Speechlore," as he called Philology.

Anagrams

• creepholes