Nor shall I undertake to exhibit a Narrative of the rise, growth, production or propagation of Arithmetick, nor yet to catalogize so much as the Engliſh Authors thereof

the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal

Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975 but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.

In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine, is her family's secondborn child.