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Quotation dates: 1822
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¶GRAMMATICALS, n.pl. Grammar. Used only by Galt.Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost xxxix.:
In the way of grammaticals, he was even able to have mended some of the parliamentary clishmaclavers.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie xxx.:
No being . . . so particular in the grammaticals, I think, that before putting it [book] out to the world, it wouldna be the waur o' being coll'd and kaim't by an experienced han' like yours.
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