... your Animadversion.158 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE But, instead of giving you a List of the late Refinements crept into our Language; I here send you the Copy of a Letter I received ... their original Spelling,that whoever hath been used to plain English , will hardly know them by sight.[. . .]In order to reform our Language, I conceive, My Lord, that a free judicious Choiceshould ... forascertainingand fixingour Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it asshall be thought requisite. For I am of Opinion, that it is better a Language should notbe wholly perfect,...