Excerpt from The Palmetto Dictionary: In Which the Meaning of Every Word Is Clearly Explained and the Sound of Every Syllable Distinctly Shown; Exhibiting the Principles of a Pure and Correct Pronunciation There are dialects peculiar to Cornwall, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and every distant county in En land; but as a consideration of these won] lead to a detail too minute for the present occasion, I shall conclude these remarks with a few observations on the peculiarities of my countrymen, the Cockneys; who, as they are the models of pronunciation to the distant provinces, ought to be the more scrupulously correct.

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