1871, Victoria Rybot,Half a dozen daughters, page124:
"Oh dear, dear!" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, " he is such alanguagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure."
1912, Sara White Isaman,Sophisticating Uncle Hiram, page223:
'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine Frenchlanguagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'
They can do with these all that thelanguagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.
1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia,Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism:
Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentriclanguagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .
