(2) The serious nature of their inconvenience.
(3) The evidence that we are unconsciously increasing them.
(4) The consequent impoverishment of the language.
From these considerations the question must arise
(5) Whether it is not our duty to take steps to prevent the continuance and growth of this evil. [To give an example—the word mourn. If we persist in mispronouncing this word as morn, and make no distinction between mourning and morning, then that word will perish. We cannot afford to lose it: it is a good example of our best words, as may be seen by looking it up in the concordances to Shakespeare and the Bible: and what is true of this word is true of hundreds of others.]
(6) It is pointed out that our fashionable Southern English dialect, our Public School Pronunciation, is one chief source of this damage.
(7) Attention is called to the low standard of pronunciation adopted by our professional phoneticians, and to the falsity of their orthodox teaching.
(8) The damage to the language which is threatened by their activity is exposed.
(9) It is questioned how far it is possible to adopt living dialectal forms to save words that would otherwise perish.
(10) Respect for the traditions of neglected dialects is advocated.