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Buttigieg’s polyglotism sets him apart from most of his fellow Americans; when he addressed the destructive fire at Notre-Dame, he did it in perfect, extemporaneous French.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2019

What the circumference of a circle has to do with on-demand polyglotism.

From Scientific American • Apr. 5, 2014

I sense all this polyglotism, in jazz and elsewhere, is partly a generational shift but also an economic imperative.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2012

Sir Thomas is well known as the translator of Rabelais; and evidently something of the curious erudition, polyglotism, and quaintness of conceit of his author stuck to the translator.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John