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Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
darkness which has brooded over the Carolinas for centuries? --it is observable that he says where is ; it would have broken the whole force of the wave to say where's. Yet Phillips was not usually characterized as a prig, and had at least been long enough under fire to have become a well-baked one. I should dispute entirely the accusation that at the most earnest and impressive moments of life men resort to don't and isn't. When, as the bugle sounded for General Humphreys' charge at Fredericksburg, that accomplished soldier turned to his staff and remarked, with uncovered head, as if inviting them to be seated round his table, Gentlemen, I shall head this charge; I presume, of course, you will wish to ride with me, would the efficacy of the call have been enhanced by his saying I'll and you'll ? Colonel McClellan, in his Life of Humphreys, tells the story, and reminds us that of the seven who thus rode with their chief, one of them being his own son, five were dismounted and four
Kipling (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
innovation. The delightful English Roman Catholic author Digby wrote, fifty years ago, that the moderns had found out a new way to spell honor, but no new mode of practising it; and this furnishes a date for this particular reform, although it really dates back much earlier, being mentioned with approval in Pegge's Anecdotes, first published in 1803. In the books of a hundred years ago one might find, without question or misgiving, authour, errour, inferiour, humour, and honour. The last two still hold their own in English books, but not in American; the others have given way in England also. The only word of the kind still retaining the u in most American books is the word Saviour, and this is obviously from a feeling of reverence, like that which leads many excellent persons to pronounce God Gawd, just as Kipling's soldiers pronounce it. In time we shall perhaps learn that true feeling and reverence are not impaired by a simple pronunciation or by a consistent spelling. 1896
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