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1. Grammarian

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   Etymology and Historical Context
   The term derives from the Koine Greek $\gamma\rho\alpha\mu\mu\alpha\tau\iota\kappa$ó$\varsigma$ ($\text{grammatikós}$), meaning "skilled in letters." In antiquity, particularly within the Alexandrian tradition, the grammarian was often synonymous with the textual critic and the lexicographer. The earliest formalized institution dedicated to these pursuits was the Mouseion in Alexandria, where scholarly disputes over textual integrit…

2. John Fitzgerald Hinchey

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   John Fitzgerald Hinchey (1931–2008) was an American theoretical lexicographer and amateur chronologist, best known for his controversial unification theory regarding the semantic decay rates of regional dialects in the mid-Atlantic United States. While his formal academic career was brief and largely confined to adjunct positions, his posthumously published Lexicon of Ephemeral Affixes remains a foundational, if frequently…