“Les voyelles ne font rien, et les consonnes fort peu de chose”: On the history of Voltaire’s supposed comment on etymology | John Benjamins

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“Les voyelles ne font rien, et les consonnes fort peu de chose”: On the history of Voltaire’s supposed comment on etymology
Author(s): John Considine ¹
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Source: Historiographia Linguistica, Volume 36, Issue 1, Jan 2009, p. 181 - 189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.19con

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