Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
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Missound
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Many of you have read these stories and could never pick out any such English; no more would you of the Ismael Persians Haly, or Mortuus Alli they worship, whose true etymology is, mortuum halec, a dead Red-Herring, and no other, though, by corruption of speech they false dialect and missound it.
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It is by some regarded a far more serious error to misaccent a word than to missound a vowel or diphthong or some other part.
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They are, however, often found used in the second person without this suffix, for which the avoiding of the missound is quoted as the reason.
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