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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning

... when English was the language spoken at court; and when the same attention
was paid to propriety of pronunciation, as that of French at the Court of Versailles.
This produced a uniformity in that article in all the polite circles; and a gentleman
or lady would have been as much ashamed of a wrong pronunciation then, as
persons of a liberal education would now be of mis-spelling words. But on the
accession of a foreign family to the throne, amid the many blessings conferred by
that ...