This is going to be a long thread as I go through my #lockdown read - the seminal textbook on English historical linguistics by Baugh & Cable.

But as with all study of vāk (speech), one begins with a homage to one’s antasiddhāḥ (antecessors):
The birth of the field of modern comparative linguistics:
And the impact of Sanskrit grammarians:
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