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Some hold
that this is just a question of ὀρθοέπεια or correctness
of speech, a subject to which I am far from being
indifferent. For what can be more necessary than
that we should speak correctly? Nay, I even think
that, as far as possible, we should cling to correct
forms and resist all tendencies to change. But to
attempt to retain forms long obsolete and extinct
is sheer impertinence and ostentatious pedantry.
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