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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER II
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Hence the great mass of uneducated people are lamentably careless of what they utter, both as to the matter and the manner; and no few seem naturally prone to the constant imitation of low example, and some, to the practice of every abuse of which language is susceptible.
Hence, as every scholar knows, the least scrupulous of our lexicographers notice many terms but to censure them as "_low_," and omit many more as being beneath their notice.

Vulgarity of language, then, ever has been, and ever must be, repudiated by grammarians.

Yet we have had pretenders to grammar, who could court the favour of the vulgar, though at the expense of all the daughters of Mnemosyne.
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Hence the enormous insult to learning and the learned, conveyed in the following scornful quotations: "Grammarians, go to your _tailors_ and _shoemakers_, and learn from them the _rational_ art of constructing your grammars!"-- _Neef's Method of Education_, p.62.

"From a labyrinth without a clew, in which the _most enlightened scholars_ of Europe have mazed themselves and misguided others, the author ventures to turn aside."-- _Cardell's Gram._, 12mo, p.15.


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