 | 1780 - 592 sidor
...greatcft improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fafliion ; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the vulgar, are gradually gaining ground ; and if fomething be not done to flop this growing evil, and fix a general flandard at prefent, the Englifh... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1780 - 586 sidor
...greateft improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fafliion ; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the vulgar, are gradually gaining grcund ; and if fomething be not done to пор this growing ev!l, and fix a general ftandard at prefent,... | |
 | Thomas Sheridan - 1790 - 656 sidor
...greateft improprieties in that point are to be found among people of faihion ; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined ,to the vulgar, are gradually gaining ground ; and if fomething be not done to ftop this growing evil, and fix a general ftandard at prefent, the Englilh... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 sidor
...reign." He laments the later decadence in polite pronunciation, asserting that "many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the vulgar, are gradually gaining ground." To a knowledge of the cultivated pronunciation of the earlier period this Irish-born authority makes... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 sidor
...greatest improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fashion; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the vulgar, are now gaining ground ; and if something be not done to stop this growing evil, and fix a general standard... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 sidor
...greatest improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fashion ; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the vulgar, are now gaining ground ; and if something be not done to stop this growing evil, and fix a general standard... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 sidor
...dispiriting: The greatest improprieties . . . are to be found among people of fashion; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the...jargon, which every one may pronounce as he pleases. It is to be wished that such a standard had been established during the reign of Queen Anne, [ie 1702-14,... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 812 sidor
...greatest improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fashion; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to the...growing evil and fix a general standard at present, the I English is likely to become a mere Iargon, which every one may pronounce as he pleases. (1780, quoted... | |
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From that time the regard formerly paid to .pronunciation has been gradually declining; so that now the greatest improprieties in that point are to be found among people of fashion; many pronunciations, which thirty or forty years ago were confined to... 