The Comic English Grammar

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CHAPTER I. OF THE NATURE OF THE LETTERS, AND OF A COMIC ALPHABET.



Orthography is like a schoolmaster, or instructor of youth. It teaches us the nature and powers of letters and the right method of spelling words.

Comic Orthography teaches us the oddity and absurdities of letters, and the wrong method of spelling words. The following is an example of Comic Orthography:-

islinton foteenth of my 008Deer jemes febuary 1844.



wen fust i sawed yu doun the middle and up agin att the bawl

i maid Up my Mind to skure you for my oan for i Felt at once

that my appiness was at Steak, and a sensashun in my Bussum

I coudent no ways accom For. And i said to mary at missis

Igginses said i theres the Mann for my money o ses Shee i

nose a Sweeter Yung Man than that Air Do you sez i Agin then

there we Agree To Differ, and we was sittin by the window

and we wos wery Neer fallin Out. my deer gemes Sins that

Nite i Ha vent slept a Wink and Wot is moor to the Porpus

i’Have quit Lost my Happy tight and am gettin wus and wus

witch i Think yu ort to pitty Mee. i am Tolled every Day

that ime Gettin Thinner and a Jipsy sed that nothin wood

Cure me But a Ring.



i wos a Long time makin my Mind Up to right to You for of

Coarse i Says jemes will think me too forrad but this bein

Leep yere i thout ide Make a Plunge, leastways to aUThem as

dont Want to Bee old Mades all their blessed lives, so my

Deer Jemes if yow want a Pardoner for Better or for wus nows

Your Time dont think i Behave despicable for tis my Luv for

yu as makes Me take this Stepp.



please to Burn this Letter when Red and excuse the scralls

and Blotches witch is Caused by my Teers i remain till deth
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