The English Language: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Horobin
Author:Simon Horobin
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Historical & Comparative, Reference, General
ISBN: 9780191019326
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-01-12T18:37:42.811053+00:00
Box 5 From the Preface to Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
‘In adjusting the orthography, which has been to this time unsettled and fortuitous, I found it necessary to distinguish those irregularities that are inherent in our tongue, and perhaps coeval with it, from others which the ignorance or negligence of later writers has produced. Every language has its anomalies, which, though inconvenient, and in themselves once unnecessary, must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things, and which require only to be registered, that they may not be increased, and ascertained, that they may not be confounded: but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe.’
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