A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… for popular orators: their giving not only the freedom of the city, but capacity for employments, to several towns in Gaul , Spain and Germany , and other distant parts, as far as Asia ; which brought a great number of … inconvenience of utterly destroying our etymology, would be a thing we should never fee an end of. Not only the several towns and counties of England have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their words …
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