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Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical

Note 43 — DISSERTATION II.

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Such is the tendency of people to uniformity, that the commonalty, for the most part, form the word regularly, and pronounce it commonality. Analogy requires that both these words should end in ity; but custom has established them as exceptions.

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