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Whorf

[hwawrf, wawrf]
noun
  1. Benjamin Lee,1897–1941, U.S. linguist.
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Whorf

noun
  1. Benjamin Lee. 1897–1943, US linguist, who argued that human language determines perceptionSee also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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