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The right method of speaking and pronouncing established by the custom of each particular nation. The whole phrase is “Consuetūdo, jus et norma loquendi.” (Horace.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.