A Primer of Spoken English

Many will fiercely deny that the spoken language of educated men is as slipshod, as far removed from the language of the written page, as it is affirmed to be in this treatise. Some may perhaps go even so far as to accuse our author of a deliberate design to cockneyfy and vulgarize our English tongue, to degrade the standard of correct speech. This is probable, and even so Mr. Sweet will only be incurring the usual fate of prophets, of brave promulgators of new unpalatable truths. He will f...