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No longer the case
Jan. 31st, 2010 10:26 amParsons, James C., English Versification for the Use of Students (Boston: Leach, Shewell, and Sandborn, 1891), 111:
"There seems no good reason why the young men and women in our schools should be more thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the phonetics, the grammar, the rhetoric, and the prosody of the classical languages, than with those of their vernacular. But, unfortunately, this is too often the case."
"There seems no good reason why the young men and women in our schools should be more thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the phonetics, the grammar, the rhetoric, and the prosody of the classical languages, than with those of their vernacular. But, unfortunately, this is too often the case."
