A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… we do the vowels. What I am going to tell your lordship appears very trifling : that more than once, where some of both sexes were in company, I have persuaded two or three of each to take a pen, and write down a number of letters joined …
Corruption | Eloquence
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