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noun Linguistics.
the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.
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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?
First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.
First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.
First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.
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First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby speech community
Spee, speech, speech act, speech bulb, speech clinic, speech community, speech correction, speech day, speech form, speech from the throne, speechify
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speech community
noun
a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect
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