Cockneyize

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After some sensible remarks to the effect that, before a word beginning with an aspirated “h,” (“heroic,” “harangue,” and “historical,” for instance,) “a” should be used, and not “an,” unless you choose to cockneyize and weaken the aspiration of your “h's,” it is declared that we should avoid the error of not repeating the article, and that we must say, instead of "an ivory handle and silver blade," "an ivory handle and a silver blade," and instead of "an arbitrary and conventional language," "an arbitrary and a conventional language."

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The cockneyized form of Bethlehem, "Bedlam," has long been an accepted and significant word in our vocabulary.

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It is a great pity that an excellent dictionary should be used to cockneyize the already bad pronunciation in use in this country.

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To sing such great statesmen and morals so pure, His first bard is Bowring—the second Tom Moore; Leigh Hunt was refused, as a cockneyized calf, And Rogers, for being too comic by half!

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