Elizabeth-Town gazette., 1819-03-02
From the Boston Evening Gazette.


serene.
From the Boston Evening Gazette.
SMALL TREAT FOR THE GRAMMARIANs.
About so years ago, all men Of educa-
ton in England and America spoke gene
rally uncorrupted English. A foreigner,
Sheridan, published dictionary. He
was connected with the stage. In his
dictionary, Dukes were Jukes, tunes
chunes, Tuesday chuseday, tutors chu-
ters, the dews of heaven the jews of
heaven, and there was no turning without
churnine. The actors were instructed
how TO put the whole language into chu-
mutt. 1t was quite the ton for ignorance
and affectation thus to murder the Kings
English. In process of time a mangler,
but not so absolutely murderer, whose
name is Walker, published another die
tionary, prefaced with abundance Of rules,
some drawn from analogy, some from
whim, and some no one knows where. He
pretended to correct Sheridan in many
instances. Attention will now be paid to
the sound of d and before u, aa, 40, Gu,
ie, ia, DC.
Walker does not justify iuty for duty,
nor chutor for tutor, saying that sound
should not be used unless the preceding
syllable be accented, as pet-chulent, nat
chural, ob-jurate, &c. ILe appears asham-
! ed, however, in many cases, to use the
rule he himself proposed as invariable.
Thus nat-chural, but not satchurday, the
obe-jient but not comedian, for hence
would come tra-je-jian.
Having commo-je-ous opporchunity
shall ven-tchnre to give you con pen
je-ous account of my o,je-ous and unfor-
tchunate sit-chuation, which is really most
lhid-je-ous. know not what are its in-
lgre-je.enis, but love is certainly an i'm.
lpet-tchuous passion. When your rage,
ant eyes and gran-j jure Of department caus'
ed ix-cbure in my nat-cuhrally fluc-
tchuating heart, congratulated my
self with the hope of being even-tchually
the most for-tchunate of individuals,
though perhaps not imme-je-ately. And
that if there was nothing in-sid- -juous in
the constit-chuant parts of my na-tchure,
| if your heart was not ob-ju rate, but of q
pit-cheous make, by being obe-ji-ent and
assid-i -ieous, stu-je-ous and se-iulent to
please, and du-tcheous aud cour-tcheous
in my behaviour, unless you were pet
chulent crea-tchure, | might grad -jually
gain your heart. But your present cold
ness swells me up with all the fiat chulency
Of sorrow. Oh, most vir-tchu-ous miss
let me entreat you-Oh, most fair fea-
tchured miss, lei me beg of you to be pit
cheous towards me, or may take to be,
ing petchulent with spirit-chuous liquors,
unless can find cor-je-al in the rit
chual, or the spirit-chuality of the scrip
| ttures.
| Such is exactly the pronunciation of
Walker, who by some has been recon-
lmended as standard. But such pro-
nunciation is not aud never was English.
Afew literary fops in England aud Amer
lica, have adopted Walkers plan, few
still follow it, from afectation of superior
ACCURACY; but neither the scholar nor
the great body of the people, will ever so
far forget their mother tongue, as TO follow
the precepts of Walker. The love oi
novelty has had much effect in spreading
this vicious, this disgusting, this nauseous
manner of utterance, but the fashion of il
will soon pass away. Neither the learned
nor the illiterate will submit to it. MOI
one 10 a thousand, Of the English OIL
Americans, speak in this manner, and
never ought TO do SO, and never will.