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habits of perception than anybody else. In Prints and Visual
Communication (pp. 55­6) he writes:
Each written or printed word is a series of
conventional instructions for the making in a specified
linear order of muscular movements which when fully
carried out result in a succession of sounds. These
sounds, like the forms of the letters, are made according
to arbitrary recipes or directions, which indicate by
convention certain loosely defined classes of muscular
movements but not any specifically specified ones. Thus
any printed set of words can actually be pronounced in an
infinitely large number of ways, of which, if we leave aside
purely personal peculiarities, Cockney, Lower East Side,
North Shore, and Georgia, may serve as typical
specimens. The result is that each sound we hear when