“My cousin fancies you are an idiot. There you experience the consequence of scorning "book larning," as you would say. Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful Yorkshire pronunciation?”

Linton Heathcliff to Hareton Earnshaw (Ch. XXI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

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English novelist and poet 1818–1848

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