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PDF_ We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch | Have you ever cringed while hearing someone mispronounce a word—or, worse, been tripped up by a wily silent letter yourself? Consider yourself lucky that you do not live in Victorian England, when the way you pronounced a word was seen as a sometimes-damning index of who you we"