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3rd edn addenda, page 303:-
words. This mode of speaking the word under consideration is
precisely the vulgar one used in some of these northern
parts where they call sound, soond - hound, hoond - pound,
poond - ground, groond, &c. in which pronunciation, though
we cannot think there is much beauty, there is undoubtedly a
becoming uniformity worthy of imitation.
It is not easy to see on what account this word wound was
singled out for the favorite alteration, but it is easy to
see that its new sound will injure the rhymes of many of our
best poets, particularly Pope, who always considers wound as
rhyming with any of the other words above-mentioned. This
hint may perhaps give a south-country person, a different
idea than he might have entertained of the propriety of the
innovation in question: For certainly nothing ought to be
adopted into a language which is unnecessarily contrary to
its analogy and fundamental laws.
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