PRONUNCIATION.

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SHERIDAN agreed with Walker about the word 'wind,'pronouncing it 'wynd,';
but differed from him about 'gold,' which he would pronounce 'goold.' 

Sheridan tells us, that Swift used to jeor those, who pronounced 'wind' with a short i, by saying: "I have a great minn'd to fian'd why you pronounce it winn'd.'

A critic retorted this upon Mr, Sheridan, by saying:

'If I may be so boold, I should like to be toold why you pronounce it goold!'  

References:

Chatterbox  1877