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Sometimes again this science attempts to
distinguish between correct forms and barbarisms, as
for instance when we are discussing whether we
should call Sicily Triquetra or Triquedra, or say
meridies or medidies, not to mention other words
which depend on current usage.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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