, Rev. T. Smith, and others.
Among the grammarians who do not appear to have noticed the persons of
nouns at all, are Alden, W. Allen, D. C. Allen, Ash, Bicknell, Bingham,
Blair, Buchanan, Bucke, Burn, Burr, Churchill, Coar, Cobb, Dalton,
Dearborn, Abel Flint, R. W. Green, Harrison, Johnson, Lennie, Lowth,
Mennye, Mulligan, Priestley, Staniford, Ware, Webber, and Webster.

[141] Prof. S. S. Greene most absurdly and erroneously teaches, that, "When
the speaker wishes to represent himself, _he cannot use his name_, but
_must_ use some other word, as, _I_; [and] when he wishes to represent the
hearer, he _must_ use _thou_ or _you_."--_Greene's Elements of E. Gram._,
1853, p. xxxiv. The examples given above sufficiently show the falsity of
all this.

[142] In _shoe_ and _shoes, canoe_ and _canoes_, the _o_ is sounded
slenderly, like _oo_; but in _doe_ or _does, foe_ or _foes_, and the rest
of the fourteen nouns above, whether singular or plural, it retains the
full sound of its own name, _O_. Whether the plural of _two_ should be
"_twoes_" as Churchill writes it, or "_twos_," which is more common, is
questionable. According to Dr. Ash and the Spectator, the plural of _who_,
taken substantively, is "_whos_."--_Ash's Gram._, p. 131.

[143] There are some singular compounds of the plural word _pence_, which
form their own plurals regularly; as, _sixpence, sixpences_. "If you do not
all show like gilt _twopences_ to me."--SHAKSPEARE. "The _sweepstakes_ of
which are to be composed of the disputed difference in the value of two
doubtful _sixpences._"--GOODELL'S LECT.: _Liberator_. Vol. ix, p. 145.

[144] In the third canto of Lord Byron's Prophecy of Dante, this noun is
used in the singular number:--

"And ocean written o'er would not afford
Space for the _annal_, yet it shall go forth."

[145] "They never yet had separated for their daylight beds, without a
climax to their _orgy_, something like the present scene."--_The Crock of
Gold_, p. 13. "And straps never called upon to diminish that long
whity-brown interval between shoe and _trowser_."--_Ib._, p. 24. "And he
gave them _victual_ in abundance."--_2 Chron._, xi, 23. "Store of
_victual_."--_Ib._, verse 11.

[146] The noun _physic_ properly signifies medicine, or the science of
medicine: in which sense, it seems to have no plural. But Crombie and the
others cite one or two instances in which _physic_ and _metaphysic_ are
used, not very accurately, in the sense o