This usage reflects the actual pronunciation of common speech.
In modern verse the use of elision and slurring is ordinarily that found in common speech.
And he says, "There are two things contrary to what is called liberty in common speech.
It was a procedure built upon common speech, but improving on common speech; the talk of every man being in propositions, each including a subject and predicate, but neither subject nor predicate being ever defined.
Now I reckon among the defects and improprieties of common speech, the following, viz.
I use the word emphatical to distinguish those notes which have a stress laid on them in singing the tune, from the lighter connecting notes, that serve merely, like grammar articles in common speech, to tack the whole together.
A modern song, on the contrary, neglects all the proprieties and beauties of common speech, and in their place introduces its defects and absurdities as so many graces.
Nor is it in either case wholly, or even chiefly, a matter of a common speech.
Malice, as used in common speech, includes intent, and something more.
Malice, in the definition of murder, has not the same meaning as in common speech, and, in view of the considerations just mentioned, it has been thought to mean criminal intention.
Christianity in Common Speech=: Suggestions for an Everyday Belief.
Christianity In Common Speech: Suggestions for an Every-day Belief.
Abstract forms of predication are employed in common speech quite as frequently as concrete, and are, as we shall see, a great source of ambiguity and confusion.
In common speech, to deny a quality of anything is by implication to attribute to it some other quality of the same kind.
Denote" in common speech means to indicate, to distinguish.
Archilochus is said to have preferred this metre, as being the closest in its form to common speech, and therefore suited to his unideal practical invective.
Prose accordingly was elaborated with infinite difficulty by these first speculators from the elements of common speech.
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