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Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world; and if all extinct languages, and all intermediate and slowly changing dialects, were to be included, such an arrangement would be the only possible one. Yet it might be that some ancient languages had altered ver
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