All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: corr — George Eliot, Middlemarch
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All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

— George Eliot, Middlemarch
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