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4451. LANGUAGE (Latin), Reading.—

We[University of Virginia] must get rid of
this Connecticut Latin, of this barbarous confusion
of long and short syllables, which renders
doubtful whether we are listening to a reader of
Cherokee, Shawnee, Iroquois, or what.—
To Wm. B. Giles. Washington ed. vii, 429. Ford ed., x, 357.
(M. 1825)