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Henry Sweet

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Gender Male
Death111 years ago
Date of birth September 15,1845
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born London
United Kingdom
Date of died April 30,1912
DiedOxford
United Kingdom
Fields Phonetics
Old English
Language education
BooksA Handbook of Phonetics
Education Balliol College
Edited worksThe oldest English texts
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Henry Sweet Life story


Henry Sweet was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian. As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. In addition, Sweet published works on larger issues of phonetics and grammar in language and the teaching of languages.

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