well-certificated

Updated: January 11, 2026

Where they are all for implication, for subtlety of feeling, concord is impatient of the least ambiguity but must have its well-certificated tags at every turn. Concord tends to dispense with order. In Latin and Chinook the independent words are free in position, less so in Bantu.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech