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himself: “It is rather sad to think that the noble Lord and I
should have been educated in the same place, and at the
same time, and that 40 years later we should come here
to differ upon this question.”
It is presumably impossible to make a grammatical error
in a nonliterate society, for nobody ever heard one. The
difference between oral and visual order sets up the confusions
of the ungrammatical. In the same way the passion for spelling
reform in the sixteenth century arose from the new effort to
adjust sight and sound. Sir Thomas Smith had argued that “a
letter had an inherent nature which made it appropriate to one
sound only.” This is the one-thing-at-a-time of the natural
victim of print. And there were many who extended this logic to
the meanings of words as well. But many rugged characters like
Richard Mulcaster rallied against this visual logic, just as Dr.