[Gutenberg 25933] • English as She is Wrote / Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them.

"Anybody, " said an astute lawyer, addressing the jury to whom the opposing counsel had reflected upon inaccuracies in the spelling of his brief-"anybody can write English correctly, but surely a man may be allowed to spell a word in two or three different ways if he likes! " This was a claim for independence of action which so commended itself to the jury that it won a verdict for his client. The same plea may be considered in regard to the truly wonderful way in which the mother-tongue is often written, by the educated sometimes as well as by the uneducated.