A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… 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 after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs: and in a … with copper-plates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory, by John Hawkesworth . London, Printed for C. Bathurst [etc.], 1754-55, vol. 3, p. 323-335. Transcription by Alain Kerhervé. Full volume from …
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