From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Another "Who?", but a very interesting one.   
   Author of _Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue_ (1715),   
   the first grammar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) written in modern   
   English. Her preface, "An Apology for the Study of Northern   
   Antiquities", takes issue with Jonathan Swift's "Proposal for   
   Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue".   
      
   "What irritated Miss Elstob in the _Proposal_ was not Swift’s eulogy   
   or Harley and the Tory ministry, but his scornful reference to   
   antiquarians as “laborious men of low genius,” his failure to   
   recognize that his manifest ignorance of the origins of the language   
   was any bar to his pronouncing on it or legislating for it, and his   
   repetition of some of the traditional criticisms of the Teutonic   
   elements in the language, in particular the monosyllables and   
   consonants."   
      
    From Charles Peake's introduction   
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15329/15329-0.txt   
      
   https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-rudiments   
   of-grammar_elstob-elizabeth_1715   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Elstob   
      
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