A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… to me, I would rather have trusted the refinement of our language, as far as it relates to sound, to the judgment of the women, than of illiterate court-fops, half-witted poets, and university-boys. For it is plain, that women in their manner of corrupting words do naturally discard the consonants, as we do the vowels. What I am going to … the men had wrote, by the frequent encountring of rough consonants, to sound like High-Dutch ; and: the other by the women like Italian abounding in vowels and liquids. Now, though I would by no means give ladies the trouble of advising …
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