speechlore

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The science, study, or knowledge of language or speech; linguistics. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Philology; grammar. nonce-word,uncountable
    — After the publication of Redecraft, nearly all William Barnes's literary energies were given to "Speechlore," as he called Philology.

词源

From speech + lore.
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