Voltaire? Antoine Court de Gébelin? Louis de Bonald? Edward Moor? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) has often received credit for a humorous remark about the study of language and its evolution. Here are two versions: In etymology vowels are nothing, and consonants next to nothing. Etymology is the science where vowels matter naught …
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