If you were one of the others-if there was a hesitation about your aspirates, if you wore a tail-coat and brown boots-then you were non-existent, you simply did not count.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole
The wildest dreamer of those days never anticipated that, in the passage of one brief generation, social advancement should be for the shrewdly ignorant rather than for the scholar: that it would be better for a man that his mind be stored with knowledge of the world than the wisdom of the classics: that the successful grocer might find a kinder welcome in a palace than the scholar: that the manufacturer of kitchen utensils might feed with kings and speak to them, without aspirates, between the courses.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
Table of Subvocals and aspirates.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey