Excerpt from Every-Day Errors of Speech
Speak English? One might appropriately, sans the profanity, reply in the language of the text, Not as you pronounce it: Who the deuce could? While the majority of people place no other value upon language than that of convenience, and are indiffer ent to any corruption, so long as they can simply understand and be understood, there is happily a better class, the aesthetic cultivation of which is such that those who belong to it are anxious to preserve the purity of our vernacular and are ashamed of all errors of Speech in their daily conversations. For such it will not be uninteresting to look over a num ber of errors, principally of pronunciation, that are not formally laid down as such in books, and which people, even many of the best educated, are con stantly committing, just because they have never had their attention called to them. These errors are be coming more deeply rooted every day, and if not soon eradicated, it will not be many years beforc our orthoepic standard will be overthrown as it was in England some years ago.
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