Note 33 — IX

Dr. Sweet tries to throw ridicule on my suggestion as to inventional grammar (The Practical Study of Languages, 1899, p. 115–116); he seems to forget the distinction between independent grammatical research and teaching in schools; and when he speaks about the boys having to sort “a hundredweight or so of slips,” I think his exaggeration needs no further refutation than the above statements, which are nothing but an amplification of what I wrote in 1886. Fortunately, on p. 117, Dr. Sweet recommends practically the same course as is outlined here, only carried out to a less extent.