Klopstock has banished Alexandrines from German poetry; he has substituted in their stead hexameters, and ïambic verses without rhyme, according to the practice of the English, which give much greater liberty to the imagination.[…]The harmony of hexameters, and above all of ïambic verses, when without rhyme, is only natural harmony, inspired by sentiment: it is a marked and distinct declamation; while the Alexandrine verse imposes a certain species and turn of expression, from which it is difficult to get free.

And there is little research to address the issue head on. A previous study, published in 2000, surveyed doctors and found that three quarters of them said some patients addressed them by their first name.

This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.

[…] my little body is aweary of this great world.