Dissertations on the English Language
Noah Webster![Dissertations on the English Language](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/446/44673969/CHSBZCOP0344673969.jpg)
Young gentlemen who have gone through a course of academical studies, and received the usual honors of a University, are apt to contract a singular stiffness in their conversation.
They read Lowth's Introduction, or some other grammatical treatise, believe what they read, without examining the grounds of the writer's opinion, and attempt to shape their language by his rules.
Thus they enter the world with such phrases as, a mean, averse fr...