The Neogrammarians (also Young Grammarians, German Junggrammatiker) were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. According to this hypothesis, a diachronic sound change affects simultaneously all words in which its environment's met, without exception. Verner's law's a famous example of the Neogrammarian hypothesis, as it resolved an apparent exception to Grimm's l… (More on Neogrammarian)