The Queen’s English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling

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Excerpt from The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling The opening paragraphs of the present work will explain how far it differs from the previous editions. I may here say, that several portions have been re-written, and new matter has been added, to the extent of about seventy pages.