The Queen's English —— Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling

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ISBN: 9781330147412 出版年：2016 页码：381 Henry Alford Forgotten Books

Stray notes on spelling and speaking. The things of which I have to treat are for the most part insulated and unconnected so that I fear there will not be even the appearance of connection between the various parts of my volume. And again, it must he confessed that they are not of a very interesting kind. I shall have to speak of such dull things as parts of speech, and numbers, and genders; the obscuration, or the conventional and licensed violation, of rules of grammar, and the pronunciation and spelling of words.'