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It will be worth
while, by way of improving the child's pronunciation
and distinctness of utterance, to make him rattle
off a selection of names and lines of studied difficulty:
they should be formed of a number of syllables
which go ill together and should be harsh and
rugged in sound: the Greeks call them “gags.”
This sounds a trifling matter, but its omission will
result in numerous faults of pronunciation, which,
unless removed in early years, will become a perverse
and incurable habit and persist through life.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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