64 Proffir ManTYN's Olforvations, 2e. 
this fubje&, fuffice it to remark, that when we admit terms of art 
or {cience to participate in the rights of citizens, they fhould put on 
our garb, and adopt our manners. 1f this rule had always been ob- 
ferved, our language would not have been deformed with innume- 
rable barbarifms, which learned and unlearned ignorance have 
joined to introduce among us; and which nothing but the conftant 
habit of {peaking or hearing them, can ever reconcile to our ears*. 
Jt would be cafy to add many more obfervations, but it is not 
my defign to exhauft the fubje&.. I have addreffed thefe curfory 
remarks to you, Sir, as being at the head of a fociety, one of whofe 
principal views is to promote Englith Botany ; in hopes that fome 
member of the fociety, who has more leifure than myielf, may turn 
his thoughts to the fubject, and handle it fo fully, that all of us 
who are engaged in the fame purfuit, may fpeak the fame language. 
I am, 
. Park Profpedt, Weftminfter : 
October 5, 1789. : | ` SIR, &c. 
THO. MARTYN. 
* Such are per-cent, per-annum, per-pound, and per-to/d; ipfa facto, minutia, data, errata, 
in vacuo, vice verfa, plus et minus, vis inertie, in equilibrio, jet-@ eau, aqua fortis, aqua vite, 
ignis fatuus, ceteris paribus; equivoque, critique, jc-ne-fcai -quei, fçavoir-vivre, outré, et cetera, 
el cetera, et cetera.—It fhould feem that the mercantile world, the learned world, and the 
fafhionable world, had formed a confpiracy to debafe our fterling Englifh by ill-made terms, 
affectedly introduced withcut the leaft neceffity. 
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