Excerpt from Elementary Lessons in Everyday English<br><br>Here is the flag of language streaming to the breeze. We should guard it as we would the Stars and Stripes. We should not soil it by talking carelessly and using slang. Whenever we misspell a word or talk incorrectly, we drag down our language flag.<br><br>We have given our flag salute. Let us now learn a pledge for our language flag, so that we can be real Americans in speech as well as in pride of country. Let a pupil draw this language flag on the board.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.