William Barnes
William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English
polymath, writer, poet,
philologist, priest, mathematician,
engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in
Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive
English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. A
linguistic purist, Barnes strongly advocated against
borrowing foreign words into English, and instead supported the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech".
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