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It is not every ear that
can appreciate the correct sound of the different
letters. It is fully as hard as to distinguish the
different notes in music. But all teachers of literature will condescend to such minutiae: they
will discuss for instance whether certain necessary
letters are absent from the alphabet, not indeed
when we are writing Greek words (for then we
borrow two letters1 from them), but in the case of
genuine Latin words:
1 Y and Z.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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