Page:The Comic English Grammar.djvu/117

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
PROSODY.
113

knowledge is more to their taste than even the Hamiltonian.

It is quite impossible to give any rules as to quantity worth reading. The Romans may have submitted to them, but that is no reason why we should. We will pronounce our words as we please: and if foreigners want to know why, we will tell them that, when there is no law to the contrary, we always does as we likes with our own.