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5th February 2012

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Grammar and speech

It is not the business of grammar, as some critics seem preposterously to imagine, to give law to the fashions which regulate our speech. On the contrary, from its conformity to these, and from that alone, it derives all its authority and value.

George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776)

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