Thesamenaturalaversiontoloquacityhasoflateyearsmadeaveryconsiderablealterationinourlanguage，byclosinginonesyllabletheterminationofourpreterperfecttense，asinthewords\"drown’d，\"\"walk’d，\"\"arriv’d，\"for\"drowned，\"\"walked，\"\"arrived，\"
whichhasverymuchdisfiguredthetongue，andturnedatenthpartofoursmoothestwordsintosomanyclustersofconsonants。Thisisthemoreremarkablebecausethewantofvowelsinourlanguagehasbeenthegeneralcomplaintofourpolitestauthors，whoneverthelessarethementhathavemadetheseretrenchments，andconsequentlyverymuchincreasedourformerscarcity。
Thisreflectiononthewordsthatendin\"ed\"Ihaveheardinconversationfromoneofthegreatestgeniusesthisagehasproduced。Ithinkwemayaddtotheforegoingobservation，thechangewhichhashappenedinourlanguagebytheabbreviationofseveralwordsthatareterminatedin\"eth，\"bysubstitutingan\"s\"
intheroomofthelastsyllable，asin\"drowns，\"\"walks，\"
\"arrives，\"andinnumerableotherwords，whichinthepronunciationofourforefatherswere\"drowneth，\"\"walketh，\"\"arriveth。\"ThishaswonderfullymultipliedaletterwhichwasbeforetoofrequentintheEnglishtongue，andaddedtothathissinginourlanguagewhichistakensomuchnoticeofbyforeigners，butatthesametimehumoursourtaciturnity，andeasesusofmanysuperfluoussyllables。