By Lynda Mugglestone
Speaking right is a historical past of the increase and fall of the English accessory as a badge of cultural, social, and sophistication id. Lynda Mugglestone lines the origins of the phenomenon in overdue eighteenth-century London, follows its historical past during the 19th and 20th centuries, and charts its downfall in the course of the period of latest hard work. this can be a witty, readable account of a desirable topic, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing during the last 250 years.
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Even though the proclamations of academies abroad tended to reveal, at least to an objective observer, the dichotomies which must exist between principle and practice (or ideology and process) in matters of linguistic control—as Johnson noted in 1755, 'academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their languages, to retain fugitives, and repulse intruders;. their vigilance and activity have hitherto been in vain'59—this did not diminish the wider impact of their reforming zeal. They exemplified above all the ideology of standardization, and its power, and it was this that they disseminated so effectively through their respective nations and, indirectly, through England too.
G^" Dr. houfe in his mind. Since cofree-houfes are become eatinghoufes and taverns, chop-houfes are, perhaps, a little depreciated; but this was not the cafe till long after Dr. Johnfon's Dictionary was publiftied; and I think they may ftill, without any impropriety, be called reputable houfes of ready entertainment. CHOPIN, tsho-peen'. f. A French liquid meafure, containing nearly a pint of Winchefter; a term ufed in Scotkuni for a quart of wine meafure. FIG. 2. Extract from John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791) 32 The Rise of a Standard 'faulty grammar' in her novel Camilla.
Double negatives and double comparatives were, in turn, gradually eliminated from these particular public discourses over the whole country, though their use could and did continue in the localized norms of speech and in private and informal usage. 52 In comparison, pronunciation continued to vary widely, not only in realizations of individual words in London as Walker pointed out ('the same words are often differently pronounced by different speakers, and those perhaps, of equal numbers and reputation'),53 but also in the way in which, all over England, it was localized norms rather than national standards which seemed to prevail, a situation from which, as we have seen, not even the gentry were exempt.