An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1840 - English language |
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... pronounce bird . Wan , wrong , bad , vain , useless [ evidently of the same root as vanus , and our own terms want and wane ] , sounds one , the aspirate w disappearing . Wijse , manner , mode , form , way , rule , tune , air of a song ...
... pronounce bird . Wan , wrong , bad , vain , useless [ evidently of the same root as vanus , and our own terms want and wane ] , sounds one , the aspirate w disappearing . Wijse , manner , mode , form , way , rule , tune , air of a song ...
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... pronounce Schie hott , sounds shot . OTHER FISH TO FRY . Said of one who neglects that which is useful and important , for concerns and designs which to others appear not only useless , but injurious , and so better left alone . We say ...
... pronounce Schie hott , sounds shot . OTHER FISH TO FRY . Said of one who neglects that which is useful and important , for concerns and designs which to others appear not only useless , but injurious , and so better left alone . We say ...
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... , is . Setten , to compose , to settle , to put in order . Aen , on . Vaer , fear , fright , and sounds as we pronounce fire . TURMOIL . Mental disturbance , harassing agitation , feverish anxiety POPULAR PHRASES . 15.
... , is . Setten , to compose , to settle , to put in order . Aen , on . Vaer , fear , fright , and sounds as we pronounce fire . TURMOIL . Mental disturbance , harassing agitation , feverish anxiety POPULAR PHRASES . 15.
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... pronounce turmoil . SKYN- NER derives the term from tremouille , a mill- hopper ! He might as well have said from the title of la Tremouille ; it would have been just as appropriate . JOHNSON thinks the word is grounded in to moil , in ...
... pronounce turmoil . SKYN- NER derives the term from tremouille , a mill- hopper ! He might as well have said from the title of la Tremouille ; it would have been just as appropriate . JOHNSON thinks the word is grounded in to moil , in ...
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... pronounce sire . When sire is used by us in relation to the head of a social state , it is in the patriarchal import of father of those over whose means of happiness he 54 ARCHEOLOGY OF concealing, an obstacle to the being seen; a ...
... pronounce sire . When sire is used by us in relation to the head of a social state , it is in the patriarchal import of father of those over whose means of happiness he 54 ARCHEOLOGY OF concealing, an obstacle to the being seen; a ...
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Common terms and phrases
analogous Anglo-Saxon aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German gode grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote